One more entertaining quote before I leave, taken from Zeldman's old About page:
If you offered an RSS feed, I could read your stuff without visiting your site.
If you stored your groceries on the sidewalk, we could eat your food without sitting across the table from you.
Yes! Why should I work on design, content in sidebars, etc. and then discourage people from seeing them?
It reminds me of why I stopped participating in blogcritics: they didn't even want me to link back to my blog in my submissions.