If you're bereft of writing skills and have a connection to the internet, you may want to start a blog. Take this month's fig questionnaire and find out if you're up for the challenge.

	Bloggers at Sadfest2005, the worlds first international blogging conference. 'Weblog' is derived from the latin words webus ('arsehole') and logula ('with keyboard').

1.The phrase 'blog' is a contraction of the words 'web' and 'log'. What do you consider to be the fundamental difference between a blog and a conventional diary?

a) The immediacy of the blogging publication and feedback lifecycle.
b) The potentially enormous readership on offer through worldwide distribution.
c) Teenagers have the decency to hide their embarrassing
outpourings under their beds.

2. Why would you decide to start an online journal?

a) You feel creatively liberated by the blogging process and community.
b) For business reasons - employee blogs help illustrate that companies are organisations of humans with mixed interests.
c) You've finally discovered a means of establishing a web presence that requires neither writing nor technical ability.

3. I'm thinking of starting a blog. What advice can you give me?

a) Print a hard copy of each entry and check it 'off line' before
uploading to the internet.
b) Consider the words of Abraham Lincoln: "It is better to remain silent
and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it."
c) You can never use too many exclamation marks!!!!

4. Why do you update your online journal so frequently?

a) Because a static blog is a dying blog.
b) Because you feel compelled to convey universal truths free from political, academic, or socioeconomic censure.
c) Because you have no friends

5. A colleague at work is rumoured to “give good blog”. What do you do?

a) Call the police
b) Punch him in the face
c) Schedule a three hour agile workshop to discuss folksonomies.

How did you score?

Mostly a's - you are not a blogger
Mostly b's - you are not a blogger
Mostly c's - you are a blogger