You've all probably noticed the new Monitor website this week.

BlogsNH has been affected by the new site. Monitor staff writers and photographers, whose work you may have noticed here before, now have spaces of their own.

Our list of bloggers has been condensed slightly. Over the past years, we've occasionally set up accounts for folks who ended up deciding not to blog, or who only contributed an entry or two. This makes sense. Blogging isn't for everyone, and sometimes something that seems easy and fun at first can become a daunting challenge.

We're three years old! Okay, so we're three years and a few months old. But let's reflect a bit on where we came from and where we're going.

In May 2006, we started BlogsNH. The site began when Mark Travis (formerly the director of product development at the Monitor, now the publisher of the Valley News) asked Monitor staffer Clay McCuistion to help start a community blogging site. McCuistion had blogged on his own since 2002, so he was excited to bring that knowledge to the paper.

Over the past three years, we've worked at highlighting the contributions of our bloggers in various ways. We have feeds at concordmonitor.com, showing the latest posts. We've run excerpts in print from blog posts. But we're not through yet.

Hello all, bloggers and non-bloggers alike. We just wanted to drop in and wish you all the best.

To the bloggers, thanks for your hard work throughout this past year. To our readers and commenters, thanks for contributing to the discussion. This new year will likely bring changes to blogsNH -- just as this last year brought an infusion of new bloggers from the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript -- but our commitment to community dialogue remains.

Hi all. Just a note on blog comments here.

We do not ask or require that bloggers participate in comment threads. While we welcome everyone's responses, please do not make our bloggers, particularly ones who have recently started, feel unwelcome by saying they have to debate with you.

This week's Off the Page Podcast will feature Monitor reporter Margot Sanger-Katz. She will tell about her Sunday story focusing on Katherine Wieder, who says her illness makes her incompetent to stand trial.

The podcasts can be found at: concordmonitor.com/podcasts.

The Off the Page podcast this week features Monitor business reporter Kate Davidson, sharing advice for first-time home buyers and talking about her new personal finance column for the Sunday Monitor.

The Off the Page podcast this week features Monitor reporter Meg Heckman talking about last week's ecological emergency -- an oil spill in Gilmanton.

You can listen at concordmonitor.com/podcasts.

The Off the Page podcast this week features Monitor reporter Lauren Dorgan talking about action in the Legislature last week and this week.

You can listen at concordmonitor.com/podcasts.