...which is a strange, if rare state of affairs (me thinking, not G prompting thinking...).

G's asked if this is a true blog site or a chatroom and I started to debate it in my head.

I suppose in the long run I'd say it's certainly not a chatroom in the traditional sense of IM, constantly updating chat with a number of people, I reckon most, if not all, the people reading this blog will have been in a chatroom at times.

But then what makes a "true" blogsite?

OK, my thoughts are these on what makes a blogsite.

1) The ability to write down what you want in an open forum, as long as it keeps to a given standard of decency and doesn't promote any of the dreaded 'isms'.

2) The ability to connect with other people who have the same interests as you.

3) The ability to entertain or inform people.

4) The ability to share the internet, after all, these were originally weblogs, simple collections of signposts around the great expanses of the worldwide web.

Now I know for some the last point is the be all and end all of blogs, that was their function, that will be what blogs are in their "true" form.

Whereas now people do converse on their blogs, comment areas fill up and it's a way for people to connect, but does that dilute the "true" nature?

In my mind, all that has happened is blogs have evolved.

My mobile phone has games, texting, websurfing, an impressive digital camera... does it make it LESS of a "true" phone?

There are probably some who would argue it does, a "true" phone is one that simply lets you make calls... to me though something works at it's best when it can expand it's user-base, when it can appeal to people across a wide spectrum of society.

We've seen in history "true" can mean "elitist", in the world of technology and, to bring the focus back tightly on the subject, in the world of blogs, which are truly a community resource, something "true" should exclude as few as possible, it should be something that brings people together, not push them even further into groups with the same mindset.

I love the fact on here I talk and communicate with people I wouldn't do in the course of a normal day if I didn't have blog.

We don't just walk up to someone in the street and show them a cartoon, start talking about their day or know to be sympathetic because they've had a bad day. (Well I don't, hands up who can see Meno doing it...)

So there it is... looking at numbers 1-4 above, and having tried a couple of different sites, I personally think this is a very true blog site.