san, ok, i'll be serious now, seeing the clear and present groupthink going on about sajha blogs. i think it's a really bad idea. blogs tend to be treated as a personal newspaper of an individual's own private "-stan", in which the blog site "owner" (and it's laughable to think YOU own sajha but "i" own the blog) is the resident warlord who can censor what is said and who is allowed to speak. i fail to see how it enhances sajha's stated goal of bringing people together. rather, i predict it will further the clique- and personality-driven facets of sajha, which lead to yet greater encapsulated cultural marginality. in other words, it's like giving each slog (sajha blog) a personal, prepaid cellphone and saying, "now, drive down the road as you see fit". and we all know what the studies show about excessive cellular usage does...especially when in the hands of the "driver." certainly, some folks, even avowed "old-timers", may wish to insulate themselves from others' criticism. we see it all the time in here. people want to dish it out but simply cannot take as good as they give. we often don't like what we see when others hold up a mirror in our face. those people might be your friends, and you may wish to enable that, but it is hardly healthy. therefore, i suggest that you consider remaking sajha ITSELF into a blog site, not a collection of individual members' blogs. if people want to start their own, independent blogs and then link to sajha and vice versa, so be it. but i feel that your proposal and all the WAH! WAH! groupthinking in response needs to be considered carefully in advance, rather than taking some kind of "experimental" approach with the assumption that it can always be dropped with zero consequences if it doesn't work. i guess what i'm trying to say is that i feel this proposal violates the social contract currently at sajha and there's a better way to evolve into a blog site. finally, try this exercise: diagram the current sajha as an organizational chart, and then do the same for both your and my suggestions. analyze, then decide. good luck, and keep it simple!