Blogs and Online e-Journals

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Get Blog-Inspired by: Blogging the Creative Journey

What is a blog? It's a word derived from web and log, meaning an online journal-esque logging technology anyone can use for just about any reason: to share news, views, and what-have-yous. Best of all, it's a great way to enhance your written communication skills!

Would you like to learn more about blogging or start your own online blog? Here are some of the most popular online blogging communities with free hosting, subscription-based, and open source blogging tools.

Featured Blogging Articles

Are You Blogging Your Journey?
By Chris Dunmire
Are you blogging your creative journey? Are you documenting your creative life by capturing bits and pieces, visual snapshots, and honest memories of it to share with others?

Zen and the Art of Team Blogging
By Heather Blakey
Are you interested in community blogging? Learn about the transformative opportunities team blogging at the Soul Food Café has provided participants to further explore, enhance, and express their art, writing, and creativity.

Drawing, Blogging, Drugs and a Little Coffee
By Michael Nobbs
Back in the New Year I decided to make some major changes to my life. I stopped working completely (I’d been doing some teaching) and began clearing out my painting studio. I did something I never thought I would.

Blog and e-Journal Resources

Blogger
Create your own blog! "Blogger offers you instant communication power by letting you post your thoughts to the web whenever the urge strikes."

Diarist.net
"A comprehensive starting-point for both writers and readers of online journals. Whether you call us diarists, journalers, or bloggers, we've got everything you need to know all about the people who tell all."

diary-x.com
"Journaling has never been this easy. If you're looking for a fast, easy way to create an online journal, you've come to the right place. Diary-x has been designed from the ground up to bring you the tools you need to write without worrying about the mundane details of HTML."

LiveJournal.com
"A free service that allows you to create and customize your very own "live journal": a journal that you keep online! ... You can update with short entries several times a day, or with long entries a few times a week... however you'd like to use it. It's free, it's fun, and it's easy to use!"

Open Diary
"The first interactive diary community on the Internet. Read about the lives of thousands of real people, or get your own free online diary."

Typepad Hosted Weblog Service
For a small monthly fee, "Typepad gives users the richest set of features to immediately share and publish information — like travel logs, journals and digital scrapbooks — on the Web. TypePad lets people communicate, publicly or privately, with the audience of their choosing."