You will use some FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program if you upload webpages from your computer to a website server. FireFTP is as good as most and convenient as an Add-on to Firefox.
FireFTP :: Add-ons for Firefox
FireFTP 1.0.7
by Mime Cuvalo
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
Social networking refers to online communities. You join such a community by setting up a free account. This account may entitle you to post comments on the site. Many such sites also provide a home page for each member and blogging.
A social networking site is an easy place to start contributing to the Web, to move from passive observer to participant. Further, you have a better chance of finding readers for your writing in such sites.
These are my pages at various social networking sites:
http://www.dukecityfix.com/profile/mjh (Albuquerque)
http://www.myspace.com/techeditor
http://www.linkedin.com/in/markjusticehinton
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjhinton/ (photos)
http://www.pandora.com/people/info6955 (music)Each of these sites has unique characteristics and, perhaps, memberships. You should browse more than just my pages to get a sense of the community and the possibilities. Read any information the site offers about accounts before setting one up, which is usually a quick, easy and free process, though creating your page will consume more time.
Don’t be afraid to start and stop, to try one and then another. However, you will get the most out of anything you put the most into. mjh
Cyber-Catharsis: Bloggers Use Web Sites as Therapy By Yuki Noguchi
The Internet is now teeming with some 15 million blogs. …
Most individual bloggers use Internet sites like Google, Yahoo, Lycos, MSN and AOL, which offer free software for users to set up their blog and add or withdraw comments. Blogs are different from the personal Web pages that were popular a few years ago because they are more interactive, designed to look like a dialogue between the blogger and the audience.
Although AOL provides tools that allow bloggers to limit their audience to selected viewers, most don’t, said Bill Schreiner, vice president for AOL’s community programming. “It’s like they’re writing the novel of their lives, and [public] participation adds truth to their story.”
Blogging combines two recommended techniques for people to work through problems: writing in a journal and using a computer to type out thoughts.
Your Blog or Mine? By JEFFREY ROSEN
As Web logs proliferate — Technorati, which tracks 5 million blogs, estimates that 15,000 are added each day — the boundaries between public and private are being transformed. Unconstrained by journalistic conventions, bloggers are blurring the lines between public events and ordinary social interactions and changing the way we date, work, teach and live. And as blogs continue to proliferate, citizens will have to develop new understandings about what parts of our lives are on and off the record.
In 1890, when Louis Brandeis, the future Supreme Court justice, and Samuel Warren, his former law partner, wrote their famous article on the right to privacy, they worried that the press and the camera were threatening the privacy of daily life. In the age of blogs, all citizens, no matter how obscure, will have to adjust their behavior to the possibility that someone may be writing about them. …
As personal blogging proliferates, an etiquette is beginning to emerge. In a forthcoming study of nearly 500 bloggers and their expectations of privacy by Fernanda Viegas of M.I.T., more than a third of the respondents said they had ”gotten in trouble” for material posted on their blog, and a third knew other bloggers who had gotten into trouble with family and friends. Those who wrote frequently about ”highly personal materials” got into trouble most often of all. …
There are two obvious differences between bloggers and the traditional press: unlike bloggers, professional journalists have a) editors and b) the need to maintain a professional reputation so that sources will continue to talk to them. …
Like other journalists, bloggers can be sued for disclosing true details of someone else’s private life, as long as the disclosures ”would be highly offensive to a reasonable person” and ”not of legitimate concern to the public.”
Understanding and Reading a Blog — John C. Dvorak
With five million or more bloggers out there and even more readers it is assumed that everyone knows how to read a blog, or how they work. From my blogging experience I can say that this is definitely not true and hopefully this short article will describe the process for newcomers. This article is for the readers of blogs, not the writers.
JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away.
JustBlogIt supports posting to a variety of weblog system types and is not specific to just one. You can also use the Custom… setting to add any weblog type you want.
A New Forum (Blogging) Inspires the Old (Books) By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK
During the last year many Web logs, or blogs, have focused on the war in Iraq and the presidential campaign, and as these blogs gained a wider audience some publishers started paying attention to them. Sometimes publishers are interested in publishing elements of the blogs in book form; mostly they simply enjoy the blogger’s writing and want to publish a novel or nonfiction book by the blogger, usually on a topic unrelated to the blog. …
Several factors make bloggers’ books attractive to agents and editors. “Word-of-mouth buzz is much more valuable than paid advertising,” Ms. Lee said. “I think if there’s a reason people come to your site, there’s a built-in audience.”
Publishers were always happy to have authors who already have a platform, said Mr. Hornfischer, who also has started contacting other bloggers he enjoys. That built-in blog audience is growing; because the Web has no boundaries, it is international. The Perseus Development Corporation, a research-and-development firm that studies online trends, estimates there will be roughly 10 million hosted Web logs by the end of the year. Nearly 90 percent of blogs, Perseus says, are created by people under 30. …
Not everyone, though, is convinced that bloggers’ skills translate to longer-form books. “The style of blog writing is more oriented towards short form one page, set in the moment,” said Scott Rettberg, an assistant professor of new media studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Pomona. “The sense of immediacy is quite important in blogs.”
Even bloggers who have sold books agree that there is one topic they would not focus on in the longer-form novel: blogging. “I don’t know how interesting a book just about the blogosphere would be,” Ms. Cox said. “It’d just be people sitting in front of their computers.”
Ms. Spiers summed up the general feeling: “There are no bloggers in my novel. None.”
About LiveJournal
LiveJournal is a simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing (“blogging”) tool, built on open source software.
Joining the site is free. Users can choose to upgrade their accounts for extra features.
Want to learn more?
Please read our feature overview. Convinced? Create your own LiveJournal!
America Online Launches AOL Journals
Blogs Can Tie Families By KEVIN J. DELANEY, WSJ
AOL’s Journals service, which requires an AOL subscription, is about as simple to use as Blogger. It allows you to restrict public access to your blog and provides nice albums for grouping photos. If you do decide to restrict access, your visitors will have to register with AOL. That registration is free, though, and many people already have an AOL “screen name” because they use the company’s instant messaging service.
Not A Dollarshort: AOL Journals
The fact of the matter is that fundamentally, they hit the core weblogging elements on the mark. What they are doing — whether called journals or weblogs — is in fact weblogging. The elements are there, the output is familiar and the user behavior resembles all that us “real webloggers” would recognize. This isn’t just some message board with a blogging label slapped on — the AOL Journals team is taking the time and effort to get this right and that’s highly commendable.
AOL Hometown – Help – Journals Help
AOL has made keeping a journal easy. You can add entries directly on the page, or you can send them in by instant message. When you start a Journal, you have the option of adding a special “bot” to your Buddy List, and the IMs you send appear almost instantly in that Journal. You can even call in your entries using a new feature called AOLbyPhone.
AOL Journals are interactive, too. When you start yours, you can have us send an e-mail to other AOL members who are likely readers. They’ll learn what the basic subject of the Journal is and how to get there. They can read and see what you’ve posted, and they can also add comments of their own. You have to be an AOL member to start a Journal, or to get the announcement e-mail, but anyone with access to the Internet can view your Journal and add comments to it.
AOL journals can be public or private. Anyone who knows the URL can read a public journal. Private journals are open only to people you specify.
To start creating a new journal:
1. Choose Journals from the Community menu.
2. In the form that opens, click Create a Journal Now.
The first page of the Create a Journal form opens and you’re ready to begin.
AOL Keyword: AOL Journals
AOL users have a free blog at http://journals.aol.com/screenname/blog/
Rick E. Bruner’s Business Blog Consulting
Business Blog Consulting is a site devoted to demonstrating how effective weblogs can be for communicating with customers and marketing to new customer prospects. You will find here lots of examples of business blogs, as well as resources to help you learn more about the topic.
PowerBlogs specializes in fast, reliable managed blog hosting using our best-of-breed blogging software. We handle upgrades seamlessly and let you know about important new features so that you can spend your time writing, not being a sysadmin. Put that together with our ever-increasing collection of themes and you can have a fast, reliable, featureful, beautiful blog. For as little as $5 a month.
BlogPolling Voting System :: Free Polls for your Website or Weblog
put your own polls and surveys on your website or weblog. There are no CGI scripts to install and there’s no programming required. Simply add a few lines of Javascript to your site and your polls will be instantly activated.
With MSN Spaces, you can now easily build your own personal Web log (blog) to share your photos, thoughts and experiences with whoever you choose. Open your Space to the public or just allow access to family and friends. Show your pictures; tell your stories; all this and more — FREE!*