Officially a DIVA now

I started blogging at my new gig today. Please go over there and leave a comment and boost the readership numbers way up so the editors think they made a great decision in letting me on. The blog is called iDiva and the address is idivamemphis.com if you want to add it to your feeds, please.

On a side note: I mentioned in the post how my addition to the blog has been overshadowed by some big news in town today. Yesterday evening, our mayor announced that he will step down July 31. This is a man who just put our city through a very racially divisive election in November in which he won an unprecedented 5th term as mayor with just over 30 percent of the votes. He was our city's first elected African-American mayor, and he's been highly controversial his whole tenure as mayor, steadily more-so as his terms wore on. So the fact that he's only going to work six months of his fifth term shocked everyone. The story on the homepage of the daily paper has, at this writing, 369 429 comments on it.

Which leads me to this question: When people comment on news stories online, do you consider that "blogging?" Commenters often refer to it as "blogging" and it really sets my teeth on edge. But maybe I'm just overly sensitive. And territorial.

UPDATE 11:42 - uhhh, there seems to be a problem with the iDiva site. Probably because I HAVE SO MANY READERS THAT YOU'VE CRASHED THE SERVER. But if you can't get on right away please don't forget to check back later...thx