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blog :A short form for weblog, a personal journal published on the Web. Blogs frequently include philosophical reflections, opinions on the Internet and social issues, and provide a "log" of the author's favorite web links. Blogs are usually presented in journal style with a new entry each day. source

Here are a list of tools, addons,utilities and general guide to what you can do to spruce up your blog ,maintain it from a phone ,online or your desktop, so whether its collaborative or personal, whatever the platform ,you can make your presence on the internet felt !

Blog Providers
No introductions needed for most of them,but you might find the comparison of popular online blogging software a good place to help you decide where to start a blog.

Blogger ,now part of the google family is a free, hosted blogging tool. It's one of the oldest blogging tools around and today has millions of users. Blogger promises that you will be blogging within 10 minutes of coming to the site, and in fact does deliver on that. This tool is about the simplest one around, and though free, nonetheless has an impressive array of features.
WordPress is a solid, powerful blogging system ideal for publishers who are on a budget but who don't want to give up any functionality.WordPress promises a 5-minute installation, but for that to be true you do have to have some familiarity with uploading files to a Web server and using an FTP client.

Typepad is a hosted weblogging service that gives users the rich set of features to immediately share and publish information like travel logs, journals and digital scrapbooks, on the Web. Typepad.com has three levels of service.

BlogSnob The better, faster way to publicize your personal site

Chronicle Lite provides a friendly client application for people who use Blogger.com for all of their journalling needs. It also looks to satisfy the needs of the "power users" who want to interact with files on their local computer, and publish them to their online journal. Helpful shortcut keys speed up editing of HTML content, and drag-and-drop support allows tags to be created simply by dropping a file onto the Chronicle Lite window

YesI! a PHP application that allows you to build a tree-structured website via a browser. It lets you store text, images, grab webpages from other sites, share your data with others in a multi-user mode, create on-the-fly weblogs, store your contacts in the addressbook and store your appointments in the personal calendar

Geeklog allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, weblinks, and more! It can run on many different operating systems, and uses PHP4 and MySQL

webpad a web-based text editor which gives the user access to files from: the users' computer, the server it's installed on, any remote FTP server, posting to Blogger.com accounts and even the source code of webpages

Pivot a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use. It is written in PHP, and does not require additional libraries or databases to function

Planarchy an application that lets you easily publish news, reports, statistics and so on to your website with ease. You do not need any knowledge of HTML (although it is an advantage) or require the use of an external FTP client. This is because Planarchy takes care of it for you