I like the forum idea and think it's sensible. The idea behind the blog was not that you just copy and paste the entries (unless you felt that any "press release" style ones were suitable enough for duplicating, but that it was at least a place to collect contributions from the community (and it would prevent you getting duplicate emails about the same topic). Then you would end up more in an "editor" role than sole contributer. In fact with this model it's more likely to survive long term AND have more content as you won't feel you have to do everything. Just my $0.02.