Darrah, starting new threads is fine, but all you did was repeat exactly from a story on your blog. If you're trying to get people to comment on that story, try getting people to visit your blogsite. The best way to do that here at xpt is to just have your url in your 'location' (see under profile), and traffic will come in due time. That's what I did for the longest time and got a lot of clicks. Things are best unforced.