If you want to have a go at writing, talk about your most over rated album, or just have a say on what makes you tick, then you could always write a blog.
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Useful LinksBlog is short for web log, and at it's simplest a web log is a frequently updated personal website in the form of an online diary or journal, which carries loads of links to other sites.
Blogging is one of the quickest and simplest ways to get your own website - no special software or technical skills are needed. If you're not already a blogger just register with a blogging site, choose from a range of designs, and you're ready to go in less than five minutes.
Read on for a quick guide to some of the blogging site options:
Blogger.com This is the best known and one of the longest established of all the blogging sites. It was bought by Google. To get started, you just register with Blogger, choose a name for your blog, then pick from a range of design templates and away you go. Features include the facility to update your blog via email and for site visitors to add comments on your posts.
Diaryland.com As the name suggests, this service is more geared towards online diaries than journalistic blogs, with features and designs customised to that end. Diaries can be password-protected and you can add other DiaryLand users' diaries to your own favourite list.
Xanga.com A setup wizard guides you through the creation of your blog, helping you fine tune the design and add personal information and a photo. There are more features for personalisation than Blogger, with the option to add news feeds, background music, a guestbook and images of your favourite CDs, books and video games.
Livejournal.com This is the biggest of all the diary-based sites, with a real sense of community and the opportunity to link the diaries of other livejournal users together to read their comments on a single page. It has also spawned a spate of fictitious journals written by TV characters like the cast of Friends and 24.
20six.co.uk Probably the best-established UK-based blogging service - a bit less beginner-friendly than Blogger, but some extra features including the facility to post by SMS and sending photographs from your mobile.
Typepad.com One of the most fully-featured of all Blogging sites. Unlike the others mentioned so far, Typepad offers no free service - prices range from $5-$15 a month, but for this you get many more features, including complete design flexibility, online photo albums, and most usefully, the facility to sort posts by category.
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Vic McGlynn's Blog, as she writes one for the Reading Festival week.
