Anyone can run a blog (an online journal). From personal diaries to political commentary and technology observations, bloggers are making their voices heard around the world. Essential Blogginghelps you select the right blogging software for your needs and show how to get your blog up and running. You'll learn the ingredients of a successful blog, and then get detailed installation, configuration and operation instructions for the leading blogging software: Blogger, Radio Userland, Movable Type, and Blosxom. After showing you how to acquire, set-up, and run these leading software packages, Essential Blogging takes you through the more advanced features, so that by the time you finish, you'll be up and blogging with the best of them. Essential Bloggingcovers:the important components of a blog and a blog postinstalling and configuring the toolsa survey of desktop blogging clientsadvice and experience from real-world bloggershosted blogging with Blogger and Blogger Prodesktop blogging with Radio Userlandserver blogging with Movable Typeposting, editing, and deleting blog entriesadding pictures to blog entriessyndicating your stories with RSSconsuming RSS feeds with Radio Userlandcustomizing the appearance of your blog with templatesmanaging and customizing archives of blog entriesadding comments to your blogself-hosting your blog vs using a blog-hosting servicegoing under the hood with the Blosxom blogging systemWritten by prominent bloggers and authors of blogging tools, Essential Bloggingis a no-nonsense guide to the technology of blogging. | Essential Blogging by Cory Doctorow, Paperback | Indigo Chapters