A timely and appropriate comment Mr Wilson.

Indeed we are running blogs from a number of politicians, some of which have already appeared on their own sites. By working with the different parties to compile the poli-blogs on OpenForum, we are enabling our existing readership to access a broad range of thoughts from people with different ideas and political inclinations. While it's true these have already appeared on their own sites there is evidence, if you read through Jim Macnamara's and Andrew Bartlett's comments from last week, the way politicians are currently engaging with their constituents via the internet is limited in terms of the audience they are actually reaching, and in many cases closely controlled and even censored.

What we offer is a way to engage in a genuine way with a broad readership and, to my knowledge, there is no other site where a blog from the Green's Christine Milne alongside blog from the Liberal Party's Tony Abbott, and no other site which attracts comments from a broad sweep of readers from differing political inclinations.

In fact I would argue strongly that by compiling blogs from a number of politicians of different persuasions we are in fact engaging in a far more effective way than what would be possible on their own blogging pages.

But I welcome your arguments to the contrary.