Wordpress.com is a easy and but surprisingly powerful blogging tool. You can setup an account with Wordpress.com (with a valid email address)and start blogging immediately. You can also choose a theme from the dozens of themes to customize your own blog. Wordpress.com uses the popular blogging platform, wordpress script to power your blog ensuring that it is secure, easy to use and comes with spam protection. If you already have a blog with other sites, you can import them to Wordpress.com easily too.

Wordpress.com

Blogger is owned by Google. It is being used by hundreds of thousands of bloggers as a platform for setting up their blogs. Blogger offers their users free hosting for their blogs. Their interface and setup is extremely simple, and doesn't require any technical know-how. It also allows the user to choose from different templats to personalize their blogs. If you alrady have a blog, you can upload it to blogger who will host it for you free. Blogger also supports "team blogs" where groups of people can contribute to a single blog through their accounts.

Blogger

SEOBook.com is a blog by Aaron Wall touching on the subject of Search Engine Optimization. He also owns Threadwatch, a SEO forum for experts to discussion. SEOBook.com also has an ebook on SEO for sale. It covers the basics of SEO and is a good reference for even the experts. This book should be purchased by anyone interested in Search Engines. This site also offers it's readers SEO Tools, a glossary of SEO terms and some videos. The most interesting is the toolbar for firefox - SEO Toolbar. It provides a very powerful SEO addon tool for firefox.

SEO Book.com

Mashable! is the site for anything Blog related. It contains the latest news on the "blogsphere" and the social bookmarking/networking sites in general. You can read stories and articles on MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, YouTube and so on through their respective blog section. The main purpose of this site is to allow users to submit stories and even comment on them. Mashable! promotes discussion on everything in the social networking community. Mashable! also offers it's users "codes" to easily enhance and setup MySpace.

Mashable!

Your favourite blogging assistant. This little app is something like a suggestion tool for bloggers. Use this to find related topics from other blogs and from the Zemanta database. Zemanta analyzes content via "natural language processing" from Youtube, Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Rottentomatoes and many more and provides same topic suggestions. Zemanta is available as a plugin for our browser or if you are using Wordpress or Movable Type as your blogging platform, then use their own plug-ins. This actually makes life easier for bloggers. You don't need to spend hours and hours searching for related materials.

Zemanta

Other than having a rather ridiculous name, Blogowogo is anything but ridiculous. It is actually more of a blog directory as well as an blog aggregation site. That means you can have the latest blog articles on one site and choose the one that spark your interest. Their slogan is "People Powered Blog Directory". I don't know about that, but this site does attract a lot of visitors and would be useful for bloggers to add their blog to this site. The topics include entertainment (of course), cars, politics, technology, sports, health and many more. For me, I usually just browse through the general section to see whether they have anything interesting for me to read. That is what blogs are all about - being interesting.

Blogowogo

This site is just so cool. Even the design is just so cool. I would like to spend all my waking time reading through the various blog posts they have written - some of which are very very informative and inspiring. Probably why this blog is one of the most popular blogs on the Internet right now. Actually, it claims to be all about happiness. But I think it is more about life and what to make of it. Of course the topics are so general, it is very difficult to properly define this blog. But this is pretty common among blogs since people usually blog about everything. If you would like some tips and advise on life in general or just want to read up on how someone became so successful, you will have to browse through the countless posts the author has written. I honestly enjoyed reading this blog. I am sure you will too.

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Kontain - social network site for simpletons. A bit harsh but that is the truth. It makes social networking easy (very easy) that even an old man like me can do it in a few minutes flat. Basically it has all the features someone who need to get their profile up. And unlike other social networking sites, Kontain emphasis on visual updates - photos, videos and so on. So your friends won't get bored with that massive wall of text in which you whine about life. Upload that picture of you and your girlfriend licking that melting ice-cream together and think deep thoughts. Photos & videos speak louder than words. Reading sucks.

Kontain

I don't know exactly what this blog is about. Mostly it is about telling you stuff like how to grow this or that, or how to make this or that or just bees. I think the author is a farmer or something. Or he just loves to use his hands, which is a good thing. Nowadays most of us don't even know where that beef you are eating comes from. The best I heard was "McDonalds". That really cracks me up. Anyyay that is what I read, so that is what I relay to you. But hey, everything is in detail so if you want to cook some recipe on this site, you shouldn't go wrong. I think this is a very interesting website. You get to see all the interesting things done by the author and you feel like it is time for you yourself to start using your hands. Make your own mash, brew your own mead, can your own tomatoes and so on. That is so cool.

Planter Tomato

You want to be healthy? So do I. It is not easy, especially with so many confusing articles online which refute this or refute that or whatever. But I think the best way is still common sense. And a little experiment to see which works for me. Of course a little understanding of the body will help a lot. Anyway, you should read this little blog, all about this guy's adventure with health and food. I think it is a great resource for the family man. Sure, it might sound like a girl trip and so on, but honestly, health is for everyone not just females. And if you use a little common sense and read up on others have done, you might just have your health in return. What is a few minutes a day to getting good health? And some of the articles are pretty interesting as well.

Mark's Daily Apple