Blogging

Blogging Communities

Blogging communities allow you to publish your very own blog on a site run by someone else. If you have a server and want to run the blogging software on your server there are many good blogging systems (next section)

Blogger - Google's Weblog Community
LiveJournal - From Six Apart, LTD.
MSN Spaces - Microsoft's Weblog Community
TypePad - Not free, from Six Apart, LTD.
Vox - From Six Apart, LTD.
WordPress - WordPress Weblog Community
Xanga - Xanga Weblog Community
Yahoo 360 - Yahoo's Weblog Community

CreateBlog - Tools for Bloggers

Blogging Systems

Blogging systems allow you to publish your very own blog on your own server. If you don't have a server, or don't want to run the blogging software on your server, there are many good blogging communites (previous section).

GeekLog
Movable Type - from Six Apart, LTD.
WordPress - can be run on your server or theirs

Some Interesting and Popular Blogs

ABOUT BLOGS
Technorati - Blog Search and Rankings
Problogger - Helping Bloggers Make Money

TECH BLOGS
Boing Boing - A Directory of Wonderful Things
Cameron Olthuis - Social Media and Usability Design
Java.Net - weblogs at Java.Net
Joystiq - VideoGames
Matt Cutts - Gadgets, Google and SEO
Official Google Blog

CULTURAL BLOGS
Aint It Cool - Comics, TV, Movies, Etc
Defamer - Defamer
Dilbert - by Scott Adams
Gawker - Manhattan Gossip
Go Fug Yourself - Celebrity Fashion Criticism
PerezHilton - Celebrity Gossip
PitchforkMedia - Music
StereoGum - Music
The Smoking Gun - Digging up dirt on everyone
zefrank - Online Media

POLITICAL BLOGS
Daily Kos
Wonkette

CONSUMER BLOGS
BlogPire
Daily Candy