Oops - I missed a week. This last week has been a bit of a blur for me as I'm also involved with a big project called CensusAtSchool. Last week I was filmed for Maori television (you can see it here) and today was filmed for TV One news tonight. Tomorrow morning at 8:30 I get to hang out with Shane Cortese for the launch and then get filmed for Breakfast TV at about 8:50am. Meanwhile, Regan just had an interview on More FM Rotorua. Whew!

There's some cool exciting things in the works on Idolblog... can't wait till they're at the point where we can tell you all!

Memorable moments on Idolblog this week? Hmm... seeing everyone argue over Regan's opinions on the wildcard show picks and someone else also thinking that Adrian (guitarist) looks like Curly Watts from Coro!!

I'm sleepy.

It's been a strange week for me. We've had lots of people staying at our place from Saturday night until yesterday and I haven't been too focussed on Idol. Although, it was really funny to be at a concert on Sunday night and suddenly getting lots of txts on my phone and on Regan's - telling us that Regan and his Idolblog jacket were on the opening scenes of episode 2.

Regan's getting rung frequently by radio station DJs now.

Monday night we were watching a DVD (Motorcycle Diaries) with others when I got a txt from Luvz_2_Smile telling me that if I'm home I should probably delete a thread from the forums. So we paused the DVD and I pulled out my laptop (we have wireless) and knew what the thread could only be about: Liz Shaw.

Her ex-"friend" Halizin (another attention seeker from the Auckland auditions) had posted one (or maybe more, I didn't look) of Liz's porn pictures on the site. I felt sick - and not primarily because of the photos (unfortunately I had seen them about three weeks ago), but because they were on my site - one that we work hard to keep PGR - not R18 - so everyone can enjoy it. I quickly deleted the topic and Regan deleted some other comments/links that Halizin had left elsewhere. She was banned, under about 6 different accounts she created. One of the comments that upset me was someone saying that they thought that I was a bit rich not allowing swearing but allowing porn. Any website which allows signatures, photos, even links on the site could have the same thing happen to it. Most people who own a blog have come across porn spammers. We have really good moderators on the site and good people like Luvz_2_Smile who can let us know if something needs to be removed.

Dear Diary,

This year's Idol has started quite differently on Idolblog. There's been publicity about the site from the word go, with all sorts of radio stations talking about the site and The Critic getting quoted in lots of different newspapers.

The chat room was a good idea, and it was hilarious reading the conversation bits I missed.

Lots of old members are back in town. Kognac and Scap have been changing their member name every day or so which leaves me a little confused. Oh, don't confuse new member Lamb with Michael-clone, Jamie Lamb.

Girl of the moment is Liz Shaw, there's just too many topics about her to link to one in particular. Hate her or hate her, she's definitely been entertaining and has wound up in the Sunday News, on several radio stations and will even be hosting a radio show for half an hour.

Trying to be a mini-Liz is Halie who was another of the bad auditionees. She's started a few topics about herself too.

In fact, there were too many topics on the two of them that Robyn asked for me to move their topics out of the NZ Idol 2 forum. Now there's less clutter in there.

Top 60 contestant Sera and her sister joined up on the site. Matty J is also a member. Actually, there's quite a few other contestants who've joined up but haven't revealed who they are on the site (yet). I hope they do, it's nicer to have things honest and up front.