Hello. I've been away from this blog lately, setting myself up on Facebook. I now realise that when people say "blogging is dead" what they mean is that social networking sites have taken over some of the things that people used blogs for; namely, making contacts, chatting and arranging nights out. But the blogosphere is still the place to go for anything more substantial than a few sentences, and, one could argue, freed from the need for small talk, appears to have become a more substantial place altogether.