TypePad

So you want one of these blog things you keep hearing about, huh? Well, we recommend Six Apart's excellent TypePad Blogging Service (from $5/month). It's an easy to use online service (there's nothing to download) that lets you start blogging immediately — even if you don't know the difference between a trackback and a quarterback. TypePad offers professional (and easily customizable) templates, a drag-n-drop design editor, automated photo albums, comments, link manager (for favorite sites, books, music and more) and moblogging (update your blog from anywhere using your cell phone). You can even use your own domain name (by default your blog will be something like http://stan.typepad.com) with TypePad so you can just tell people to go to "www.stanthesexyman.com" or whatever.