Many of you have found the Chatroom but never see anyone on. I don't think enough people know about it, only a few login during the day. I will try to send out a notice about it shortly and see if we can get some group activity. Once a few people are in the room more will come.

If you have the time, try logging in and leaving it open in another browser window while you do something else -- if people see someone on they will be more likely to stay on themselves.

Well the private comments seem to be working well, however it doesn't seem there is an easy way to reply back to someone when you receive a private comment.

I will be adding an internal communication system of some sort so that yuo can communicate with people more easily -- probably next week sometime. If you need to communicate back with someone who wrote you privately, you can go to their Blog, select their Guestbook and add a "private" comment there for the time being.

I just upgraded/finished the "Block" feature for comments. This allows you to Block specific people from posting comments on your blog. It has always been an option but never quite worked right... now it should work. If you are the blog owner and you click on the [del] link next to a blog post, you can choose to block the author (or unblock).

One problem I have to fix still -- if you delete all of a members comments on your blog, and have blocked him or her, you cannot unblock them. (You must keep an old comment around to access the unblock feature). I will be adding a way to resolve this. For now, just write in to us if you want to unblock someone and cannot.

You can now make "Private" comments to blog owners. When making a comment on a Blog post or the Guestbook you can checkmark the Private box. The message will be emailed to the blog owner and will not show to the general public on blogs.

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this feature.

You can now show your age in your Blog page (calculated automatically).

Just go to My Account -> Profile -> Edit and Choose YES for the "Show Age" option.