Blogging Links and Resources
Here are some useful links and resources for blogging
Create A Blog
Bloglines - a FREE online
service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install.
Blogger - one of the biggest blog platforms recently bought by Google. Easy to use and you don’t need any HTML experience.
TypePad - You can publish anything instantly. Be the sole author, or share a weblog with friends, family, or colleagues. Post your vacation photos, comment on the news, keep a private journal. How you use TypePad is up to you.
Movable Type - the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. Powerful customization gives you control over everything you publish and the elegant interface keeps things simple and clear.
WordPress - a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
BlogID - a very easy way to publish your own blog online. No software or HTML experience necessary!
Zoundry - simplifies blogging and affiliate marketing for writers on the Web. Whether you’re a beginner or active blogger, Zoundry gives you the tools to create high quality blogs that can earn you money. Write and edit your blog using the Zoundry Blog Writer?, our rich blogging editor that’s as easy to use as a word processor.
Expressions - a hosted multi-lingual photoblogging system that makes it easy for anyone to create and maintain their very own blog to share their photos, their art, their thoughts and their everyday life!
Fotopages - another photo-blogging service.
Flickr - a photo hosting service that enables you to place these photos on your own blog.
MSN Spaces - Create Your Online Space with MSN Spaces for FREE. Easy to use for all levels of experience.
Yahoo 360 - currently in Beta, plus you have to be one of the beautiful people and get an invite before you can test it out.
Learn About Blogging
Wikipedia - find out what Blogs are and how they came about here at Wikipedia, the modern day Oracle.
About.com Weblogs - About.com has a good section on Blogs with links and information on how to write, what to write, why to do it, what tools you need, news and loads more.
ProBlogger - tips and advice to help you earn a crust from your online literary input.
RSS Tutorial - gives an overview of what RSS feeds are and how website owners can distribute content via them with good information and tips.
Blog Tools
BlogPulse - an automated trend discovery system for blogs. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.
FeedBurner - is an RSS/Atom post-processing service that allows publishers to enhance their feeds in a variety of interesting and powerful ways. By republishing their feeds through FeedBurner, publishers gain detailed feed statistics, maximum feed format compatibility, “shockproofing” to absorb bandwidth spikes, and more.
Blogger Talk Forums - a forum for bloggers to discuss all aspects of blogging from what to write to how to program your website/blog.
Blogdex - a research project of the MIT Media Laboratory tracking the diffusion of information through the weblog community. Ideas can have very similar properties to a disease, spreading through the population like wildfire. The goal of Blogdex is to explore what it is about information, people, and their relationships that allows for this contagious media.
Blogkomm - a commenting script for weblogs that allows comments appear within your blog, below the posts.
Bloglet - offer email subscriptions to your blog that keep your users coming back. Simple and seamless integration into your existing blog. Easy setup and hands-free maintenance.
BlogRolling - a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease. Managing your linklist still means having to crawl through the HTML in your template every time you want to add or remove a link. No more! Now it’s as simple as clicking a link or making a pit stop at BlogRolling.
Blog Searching
Blo.gs - lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. you can even put the list on your site: a blogroll that knows what is new! Create an account, select your favorite weblogs, and get started.
Feedster - provides a fresh index across over 6 million feeds several times per hour, adding millions of new documents daily.
Blogwise - a site that lists loads of blogs and gives you easy access to find the latest updates, plus split by country of origin and in various categories.
Daypop - a current events search engine. Daypop crawls the living web at least once a day to bring you the latest information relevant to your searches.
Technorati - the authority on what’s going on in the world of weblogs. Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere ? the world of weblogs.
BlogStreet - a search engine, directory plus it does other things like finding related blogs, finding info on blog authors and more.
Blogdigger - a search engine that searches through blogs (and anything with an RSS feed) for results.
Turbo Scout - a meta search engine that has the option to search loads of different blog providers.
Blog Search Engines and Blog Directories - search this list of other blog search engines and directories to find other places to submit your blog to.
RSS Readers
RSS Bandit - A desktop news aggregator written in C#.
NewsGator - one of the most widely used web-based RSS news readers.
RSSReader - free RSS reader is able to display any RSS and Atom news feed (XML). Internet syndication and aggregation software. Running under Windows 98/NT/Me/2000/XP/2003.
Feedreader - a lightweight open-source aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. It works under Windows 95 and later versions.
My Yahoo - you can subscribe to RSS feeds online via your ‘My Yahoo’ account.
My MSN - …and you can do the same on MSN. Just click on ‘My MSN’.
AmphetaDesk - a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use webpage.
SharpReader - SharpReader is an RSS/Atom Aggregator for Windows.
Feedbeep - Now you can receive alerts about events worldwide right on your SMS-capable phone. Alerts can be set to go to your mobile device or our web messaging system based on your keywords or anytime new information is posted to a feed.
Feed Digest - mix, filter and republish or syndicate feeds to HTML, JavaScript, WAP or PHP, or to a new feed.
FeedShake - helps you to generate new feeds by merging, sorting and filtering existing online RSS feeds. This service doesn’t require any subscription nor e-mail adress.
Podcasting
Wikipedia - find out what Podcasting is and a whole lot more by visiting the Wikipedia.
4 Minutes About Podcasting - Lisa Williams has put together a nice little presentation about Podcasting and how to use the iPodder software.
How to Create Your Own Podcast - Corey gives you a step-by-step guide on how to create your own podcast.
Podcast About The Podcast - a very detailed and advanced guide on to Podcast. Listen to the Podcast first, then read the page.
Podcast Alley - the podcast lovers portal. Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts (as voted on by the listeners). You will also find podcast software, the podcast forum and great podcasting info.
Podcasting News - with news, links, resources and more, this is a vital website to check out.
iPodder - the iPodder software can be used to subscribe to Podcast feeds and to download them onto your computer so you can listen to them.
PodBlaze - We make it easy to get your Podcast on the web in blazing speed. Hey, it’s so easy your Mom could do it. You can have your own online radio show, audio blog, podcast, and more. Starting right now. Plus we help you promote it and increase listenership. Set up your FREE account now!
Podbus - cheap hosting for your podcasts.
iPodder.org - an iPodcast directory plus other useful links to help you learn and find out more.
Audio Weblogs - a list of ‘The freshest podcasts in the known universe’.
PodcastPickle - a podcast directory listing over 500 podcasts.
Podscope - a podcast search engine.
Video Blogging
VideoBlogging.info - a group of people who use videos as a normal part of our blogging. On this website you can read about people who videoblog. You can also read helpful articles and how-tos to help you use videos on your blog.
Audioblog.com - the leading and easy-to-use podcast, audioblog and videoblog creation tool. A simple and feature-rich audio publishing service for your weblog or online journal.
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