Yep, it was pretty lonely out there on the 'ol blog prairie there in the beginning...look at it this way, Fred, when all those Year 2 people come along, you'll have a really low H2otown user number, and it will give you major cred with the newbies ;->

You're right on about the community stuff -- in 2006 I'm going to be working on beefing up the community features. The H2otown Newswire highlighting local bloggers is just the beginning.