I've never blogged about blogging before but the behaviour of certain Joeusers over the past few weeks leaves me feeling like I have no choice but to respond. Such has been the venom directed at me by certain other people that I want to write a blog about debting etiquette on this website. I'm not going to name names, but those about whom I'm about to write know who they are and they know what I think of them. I don't want to get into a slanging match, though that may be a forlorn hope, I...

As I'm sure you're all aware, I celebrated my first anniversary as a Joeuser last week. Yes, O G San is now one year old. Birthdays are a time for reflection so I've been pondering the nature of blogging recently, "this thing of ours", as Tony Soprano might say. There can be no doubt that the weblog is an idea whose time has come. Bloggers have started to effect the media and politics of our societies in ways which none of us can yet fully comprehend. It is only right that "blog" has been...