By the way, if anyone sees a feature somewhere they thing would work well here, or has a new idea, just shout it out. If it is a good idea and easy to do, I'll do it right away.

I'm always looking for new ways to make navigation and site use easier.

-John

I am looking into new features to add to the site... One of the more interesting ones is Audio Blogs. Basically you could pickup your phone, call a special phone number, and start talking. Your message would be available on your blog by clicking a button.

IF we offered "audio blogs", meaning you could pick up your phone and record a blog for people to listen to, rather than read...

* Would you realistically use it? (Not once or twice, but would you really be interested in using it long term).

* Would you be willing to pay a small monthly or yearly fee ($10-20 a year for example) for the ability to record blog messages this way? (assuming regular blogs stayed free as they are now).

* Would you listen to other peoples audio blogs, or would you rather read?

I have added a chatroom counter now at the top of the main site and in the blogbar so you know if there are people waiting to chat. Hopefully this will help you find other people to chat with. I may change how it looks on the front page over time -- lets see how it works out.

I've decided to pull the rating system. It never really got enough use to actually show the ratings. Very very few blogs got rated by over 20 people, most popular ones only were rated by 4-5 people.

Don't worry, you aren't missing anything. :) The data I gathered never showed on any of the blogs since there was not enough to show.

(On a positive note, the blog pages will be less cluttered now anyway)

-John

New official record. Yesterday you all officially broke the "1,000 comment mark" for the one day. Over 1,200 comments were posted yesterday!