Every user now has a blog at FanConcert where they can write about whatever they want. Most people will probably write about music but it doesn't matter.

I've meshed together FanConcert's blogs and discussion forums in order to consolidate all of the discussion. The only differences between blogs and forums are:

• Only the blog owner can start threads in a blog; anyone can start a thread in a forum.
• Terminology: Blog comments are replies to the first post in the thread.
• Blogs look more like blogs but technically they are the same as forums.

As usual, this is just an initial implementation and I'm looking forward to your comments to improve blogging on FanConcert. RSS and Atom feeds for forums and blogs are coming very soon, that's the next thing I'm working on.

I also want to make it easier to link to things in FanConcert from blog and forum posts. It's not a good idea to allow HTML in posts -- Roy suggested using BBCode and extending it for things in FanConcert. For example [artist]The Arcade Fire[/artist] would link to The Arcade Fire.

Here's my blog at FanConcert: http://www.fanconcert.com/blog/ryanlowe. The URL looks nice, just like my public profile: http://www.fanconcert.com/user/ryanlowe.

Your blog is linked right from your home page. Start posting!