As anyone that's visited here in the past month or two has surely noticed, there has not been very much activity. Unfortunately, I don't have the time and energy to carry a blog on my own anymore. It becomes a cycle where I don't post and then the threshold for having a post being worthy of the first post in x-number of weeks raises, discouraging further posts. But I'm not quite ready to give up entirely yet as I do have things to say and ideas to present.

So I decided to shift RAW360 into a group exercise. If it works out, there may be a redesign or even a renaming in the works down the road. When I decided to give this route a try, two names immediately sprung to mind and to my delight both of them accepted my invitation to become a contributor. The first is Sammler of Stone City, a blog that has gone tragically unnoticed over the years. The second is a non-blogger named C.O. Jones that I am not at liberty to say anything about, so he'll become our resident man of mystery. Both of these men are very busy and neither will be able to contribute on a daily or even weekly basis, but between the two of them and Michael Ahlf and myself I hope to see a steady stream of posts.

I've already got at least one more name in mind for an invitation and will be on the lookout for others that that are interested in blogging but do not have the time and energy to run a blog of their own.

One other piece of news: You no longer have to register to leave comments! Even that onerous step stopped stopping the spammers, so I went back to the drawing board and added a new tool. Now, unless you're logged in you will be asked to answer a question. The questions are exceedingly easy, but if you don't know the answer to it you can refresh to get a new question or spend about two seconds looking it up on Google.

And lastly, a bit "thank you" to those that continue to stop by every now and again despite the lack of activity!