Special thanks to crack Cleveland.com blogger and Plain Dealer tech reporter Chris Seper for his concern and attention regarding the financial situation at Blogcritics.org.

We have been pushed by our steady growth in readers, writers, and archive of stories to a much more expensive site hosting plan - victims of our own success, as it were - and have begun asking for donations and encouraged purchase of our new Blogcritics logo merchandise as a result.

I don't want to give the wrong impression: I would say all signs are good and we are very well poised for the future, but we do need some ongoing extra help from readers with the new expenses.

Thanks again, Chris!