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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(mbuttive 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