The response to my last column was huge.  I received many emails regarding blogs.  Several of you thought my personal blog was boring, some funny.  Most of you that took a look at Ron’s boring blog thought the videos were quite comical.  So thanks for visiting!

I was surprised by the number of readers that would like to start their own blogs.  Most of you wanted one to keep up with family and friends.  Some wanted to express thoughts on local, U.S. and/or world politics.  One wants to post their poems and thoughts on life.  Well go for it!

Many of you were worried about not knowing how to build a website and others wanted advice on how to create a blog.  Sorry, but I don’t have enough time to get into those specifics.  Remember you can find anything with Google.com.

Here are a few ideas for free blog sites.

If you want to keep up with friends and family I suggest Facebook.com.  You can also you’re your pictures on Facebook.  You may be surprised how many people you know have Facebook sites.  It is easy to setup.  Facebook has many extras called “add-ons” which can be daunting.  Just don’t use them if you don’t understand them.

For photographs alone I would recommend Picasa Web Albums (picasa.com) or Flickr.com (not misspelled).  You can upload most all of your photos at either site.  If you don’t want everyone seeing your pics then you can share them with only those you wish.

Finally for the more standard bloggers of you I recommend WordPress.  Be cautious as there are two distinctly different WordPress sites online.  If you want to let WordPress take care of all the “heavy lifting” involved in creating a blog, use WordPress.COM.  Just click the “Sign Up Now!” button and you will have your blog going in a short period of time.  My personal blog, ‘rondoyle.wordpress.com‘ is one of those.  I don’t spend much time with it including its creation so that is what I used.  It has an amazing number of color template designs you can choose so that your blog site will be unlike any other.

For you geeks out there I suggest WordPress.ORG.  You can do much more with this than the dotcom version but you must have your own domain name.  If you don’t understand that “domain name” part skip it and go to the dotcom site.  Please note that this will be the hardest to set up and will take a lot of time on your part.  This site, DoubleClicks.info site was set up mostly using WordPress.org and believe me it took me weeks, working on it part-time, to get it the way I wanted.

Let me know if you set up a blog or have one.  I would love to take a look at your sites and I’m sure they won’t be boring.

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