What Kind of Blog Is This?

It's a blog on contemporary affairs to make you think a bit. Hopefully, the countries and cultural areas covered will be of mutual interest. If not, thanks for visiting. Maybe we'll meet elsewhere.

I'll post some of my own viewpoints but nothing definitive. You will have to work a little to get better answers about sometimes complex and controversial issues. That's partly why a significant amount of possible interaction with me is built into the blog (screened comments on postings, my Gmail address (john.a.macdougall@gmail.com), my Facebook pages (you have to join or login if you're not already a member), with Google Talk (john.a.macdougall) and Skype (johnamacdougall) also possible but held in reserve because these tools can get too complex for many persons and disruptive to, ah, among others, me -- sorry about that. For related reasons, no land line or mobile calls. Many thanks.

Thrashing out issues is also why there are some old and new media search tools in the sidebar. Without ignoring print, the great variety of net resources is vastly underused.

That's also why there is, at the bottom of this main page, an always changing, breaking newsfeed, solely on the blog's topics, reflecting my main concerns. Clicking on any of those headlines will take you to the full story behind them. Thanks to Google for this gadget!

If you prefer to read in some other language than English, try using one or more of the translation aides on the net like Google Translate, Yahoo! Babel Fish, or the awesome FoxLingo add-on to the Firefox browser. Links to other translators are also neatly presented on the FoxLingo homepage.

Welcome to my world, all you good people. Together, let's make things happen. Yes, we can!

And how could I say hello without sending you a song, nay, a veritable concert by one of my younger friends. :-)