A) A possible New EchoBlog Logo?

B) The Current EchoBlog Logo

C) My Favourite Possible Logo

Simply put, what we’re asking you to do is choose.

There are 3 logos here and we want you to look at these, consider which you’d prefer, and email us something which you think is better if you’ve got the time.

Not all of these logos are good, and I can see that even sitting here. But it’s up to you to say that, so this is now a question of your good taste.

Vote, or email us at echoblog@rocketmail to submit your own, which we’ll work on getting up as soon as possible.

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Teenagers are celebrating the end of exams; children are gazing out of the classroom beckoning the end of term and even adults will be sitting at their computers looking up exotic locations to jet off to this summer….. It’s official: summer is here.

Having already experienced two mini heat waves, I’m certainly looking forward to a hot summer with the Met office already forecasting higher than normal temperatures for the start of July! Of course, they’ve had to scrap their long term forecasts: you might remember that barbecue you bought last year that went unused or those plants that died from this year’s “mild” winter…

Here at Echo Blog, we are trying to give you the information you need to kick off your summer. Whether that be the right clothes to wear on the beach (no, the flowery board shorts aren’t enough of a statement anymore), or finding out how celebrities and politicians are coping in the heat, we hope to provide it all.

If you keep an eye on our Sports section, you can find out more about the World Cup as we roll out information and views on the tournament. This is also an area where we’d love to see your comments so you can keep us up to date with how we’re doing.

For that gadget you must have in your suitcase, or that film you must go see on a rainy day just check out our Technology and Entertainment sections. And, for those of you on Facebook or Twitter, keep up to date with our posts on our fan page or follow us: “ThinkEcho”. We’re all really looking forward to this summer and we hope that you will continue to join us as we watch Echo Blog escalate to new heights.

At Echo Blog we’re interested in you.

We want to know what you want from us, so we have a few questions we’d like to ask.

Just before we do, we’d like to update you on our plans over the coming months. We have huge ones, that will change the face of EchoBlog forever, but we need your help finalising these details. We want to hear what you love about Echo Blog, and what you hate. We want to know about the sites that interest you, and the sites that don’t. The information you want, and the information you could do without.

So tell us by commenting below, or emailing echoblog@rocketmail.com, and watch this page over the coming weeks for some big announcements!

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The song above is about getting rid of unhappiness and changing the world, and in a small way, that’s what we’re about. Because what we want to do is create a community, just like in the song, and connect people all over the world, but not in the way that somewhere like facebook does, but connect people’s opinions and thoughts and ideas by constant stimulation.

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The end of the internet

Go check out the new photo view version of our home page!

Tell us what you think by commenting below!

I see everyone as an opportunity. It’s what humanity is about. Inside everyone there’s a beating heart and a yearning mind aching to get out. People are enraged by everything from politics to dress sense, or from history to video games. The beautiful thing about mankind is that there are so many possibilities to explore. All the people you claim to hate have a list of interests and aspirations both diverse and convergent, and will experience millions of moments in their lives, happy and sad, even nerve-wracking. But it takes an inkling of joy out of me, the thought that for the majority of people, I can’t be a part of that. After all, humanity evolved to be a social race, and our interdependence is key to our survival, and to our happiness.

Something always stops me however, from approaching someone new, from learning about that world of new possibilities, and discovering someone else’s hopes and fears. But then there are moments where I just can’t help but share a smile with a bemused shopper, or a grateful lady unable to pick something up. And in every single one of those moments I’m being fulfilled, a million times over. I could just walk for the rest of my life, bumping into people, and helping people out, because it’s naturally a rewarding experience.

This is where we’ve gone wrong with charities, with politics, with our lives, with our companies, with our schools, with our communities, and on our very doorsteps. It’s apparent to me, that we’ve become individuals so entirely that we’ve been swallowed up into a mass of empty consensus. We have elections, with politicians fighting about issues up in the clouds, without looking down at us, the people they’re supposed to be representing. We have charities that ask us to inanely give money, when the real joy, and the reward of giving, is the experience. We have lives that include only around twenty people, whom we juggle and quickly lose contact with. In the workplace big corporations rule the streets, and we’re simply swollen in the midst of it, stuck, working to live, with no fulfilment. In our schools, we’re failed by teacher’s revisiting subjects they barely passed, and brought to tears by a curriculum that takes minimal account of our individuality. In our community we walk down empty streets, passing people we’ve never met, and on our very doorsteps we’re confronted by the emptiness of another solitary day.

We’re people. We were never meant to be separated, but every single door, every single wall contests that. And now, more than ever, those walls are social. The consensus that means you can’t open your mouth, and that values your opinion, but never asks it.

So this is Echo Blog, asking you to open your mouth, and start talking. We’ll always be listening.