Did you know it took Genghis Khan two tries to defeat the Khwarezmid Empire? It's true. Babe Ruth? Did not hit a homerun in his first trip to the plate. And John Lennon wanted to sleep with his mother. All of these are true. And go to show you one thing.

Some people never give up.

So, here I am again, saddling up the bucking bronco that is neighborhood blogging for another ride. We're building a neighborhood blogging service called Neighborlogs -- taking the magic that creates the content, the community and the advertising at the heart of this site and Centraldistrictnews.com and putting it in a bottle. And giving it away for free. We make our cash off of advertising on sites that use our service. We're practically a charity!

Why tell you about this today? For one, my longstanding rivalry with Seattlest's MvB requires me to attempt to one-up him on his day of glory. For two, I'm looking for a few more 'some people' types to join the Neighborlogs beta. We're looking for a few good bloggers who either are already...