To blog or not to blog

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I just regged a name that will, from all that I have heard, be the next buzzword. So my question is this, I want to set up a site for people to post their thoughts on(and of course make money for me in the process), which led me to believe that since blogs are the latest greatest things going, this name would be better used as a blog site.

Any suggestions? I could also setup a forum but seems Blogs would be better accepted for a discussion website. However while I know quite a bit about forum software, I know next to nothing about blog software

The software will run on a Redhat Enterprise server and should have the options for ad links and such(google comes to mind).I have looked at WordPress and a few others but they look like they are more suited for individuals and not a full blown discussion server.

Any thoughts? Just as an FYI, no it's not in relation to my AvianInfluenza link in the sig, that is just going to be an info site with news stories. The name I regged has more of a political bent.

Well since no one seems to know much about this I have had to do that much more searching and finally settled on ExpressionEngine, since it's based on PHP I should hopefully be able to modify it enough to do what I want.

Hopefully I made the right choice. Only time will tell...