"Mike Tommasi" > wrote in message
...
> Imagine you have just discovered AFW.
>
> The most active thread, with 24 replies so far, is the one called "You
> really are a bunch of Peckerheads"

Yeah, that _is_ kind of pathetic, isn't it?

> Hmmmmm. Guys, let's start a new thread instead of keeping these funny
> ones going...

OK Mike, but what about the _subject_?

I have an idea, but it's more of a question than anything else:

Why have I (insert your name here) not yet posted to the Blog?

I have a tentative answer:

I find a.f.w less intimidating. This is conversation (although we have to
wait awhile for a response).

Blogging looks more like writing a serious paper, although I suppose that it
might be brief. I could blither on about French oak forests and how they
taste different among themselves, and which I prefer and why - but I rather
doubt that would have much of an audience; but even if it did I wouldn't
have the time to devote to writing a treatise on the subject.

I agreed, as many others here did, to participate in the blog. The trouble
is, I don't know where to start. I have a suggestion though, that might
make it easier for us to get our feet wet:

I would like to know how informal is _too_ informal. IOW, what should our
general level of seriosity be? Where on a scale of 1(Who is J Lo married to
this week?) to 10(massive myocardial infarction) should we aim to "fall" (or
should that be "arise"?)? Would that be a log or linear scale?

Here's a last minute thought: Is there an easy way to know what's going on
in the other languages in the blog? I just got an e-mail from someone
French who was really stoked about the Blog getting mention in the press.
At least I _think_ that was the gist of it. Who _was_ that masked person,
and what happened?

Tom S