I had a couple good ideas, however there is no email link anywhere on the blog pages that I can find. So it would be much appreciated to give more detail on the how.

First impressions are everything, if a site isn’t fun at first impression, it should either be made fun asap or people just won’t bother to visit it for a long time.

also unusual is a term used for something not common and, whilst it’s uncommon to have a government hosted blog site, it is not uncommon to have a blog site.

So let us be honest here:
Even though it is uncommon for a government to create a site like this, does the fact that the government is hosting the site make it any more appealing than a site such as livejournal? What people look for is the fastest, funnest, most convenient and most efficient way to spend their time blogging or whatever. If a site doesn’t deliver or only has some of those traits, people end up migrating to other sites.

Kudos to the government for trying something new though, I strongly agree with your sentiments about new technology. Just try to keep up.

If you need something that you think is in my power, don’t hesitate to ask either. If you want suggestions as to what my simple mind may hold, the site admins have an email of mine (that gets submitted with every reply heh).