If you're someone who routinely writes great blogs, your new postings will appear listed on the top right of the front page for the whole world to see.

This means basically if your posts get rated highly, get many comments, people recommend you from the Contact Us link, or if by the whim of the powers-to-be members of the the core team really enjoys your style, you get that substantially added exposure.

This is an effort to promote blogs that have valuable and interesting content. It should be noted that standard announcements should just be posted in their expected locations - events should also go to the calendar, and casting calls to the forums. If there's more than an announcement, a weblog is a good idea.

Everyone's blogs appear when you touch the Official Blog button, but only selected authors appear on the top right of the front page. We think everyone has the skills to write intriguing posts - it just takes the effort.

So as to help everyone here are some very useful resources written by well-known bloggers for getting used to this new , brave blogging medium:

Ten Tips for Writing a Blog Post

How to Write a Better Weblog

How I Write Great Blog Posts

And more fuel for your inner creative fire:

Simple Steps to Create Exceptional Blog Content

Top 10 Blog Writing Tips

10 Key Ingredients of a Great Blog

And a terrific, practical article on how to write fabulous, glowing headlines.

Important note: Safari is not compatible with blogging tool at this point. Safari suffers from some lack of compatibility with many HTML standards. If you're using a Mac, Firefox is fully compatible. Also, a small bug - you cannot include apostrophes in the title of your blog. We will fix this shortly.