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Understanding Blogs

The blog is a simple publishing method that has moved from controversial to essential at most news organizations. It has changed forever the way information is disseminated in our society. But a "blog" is simply a different way to publish content....

Writing and Editing a Blog

Writing a blog isn't rocket science, but it also may not be quite as easy as it looks. A successful blog's conversational style either comes naturally or it doesn't. So does that sense of what topics will hit the mark with the blog's audience. Writing...

Choosing Blog Software

There are many software options available for blogging. First, you must determine where the blog should live. Hosted blogs are blogs that, along with the publishing interface, live on the web server of a blog company. You can also get blog software...

Managing Blog Comments

Blogs come with their own set of problems. You can expect to have to deal with comment spam, Trackback spam and trolls. Spam and Trolls Sadly, blogs aren't free of the universal Internet malady: spam. On blogs, spam takes the form of commercial messages...

Quick overview: Wordpress and Blogger

Thankfully, most blog systems are so easy to use, you won't need any help. But here’s a quick overview of how to get started. Let me Google that for you:  Like most anything you want to do on the Internet, you can find out how to do something you’ve neve...

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