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Chari
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Posted: March 03 2007 at 1:03am \| IP Logged

I THINK I MAAAAY start a blog.......just to give my family a way to keep up with us on our cross country trip..........but, I have not convinced myself, yet

So, where is the best but easiest FREE place to do this? And, fun, too....

Thanks!

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Bridget
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Posted: March 03 2007 at 6:28am \| IP Logged

I don't know about the free places but what can I do to help convince you to blog, Chari?! I would LOVE to see you blog.

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 7:10am \| IP Logged

I just started my own blog this morning over at blogger.
www.blogger.com

Its free! Not sure yet about the easy! :)

I,too, would love to see you blog.

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 7:11am \| IP Logged

Chari,

I'm cheap

so I went with blogger -- the new blogger allows me to tag things and I have very little prolbmes with them....I do two blogs, my family one and a knitting one (so folks wanting to hear my deathless prose and unique designs can do so

).

Anyway, hope that helps you a bit.....

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 7:36am \| IP Logged

I have Typepad, and it is very easy, but I've been looking at Blogger and Wordpress because they are free.

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 7:39am \| IP Logged

I have typepad and love it! I've been on the fence though about the cost... if I did ever switch it would be to Wordpress (I think).

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 8:09am \| IP Logged

I have Wordpress and really like it. I just started blogging last month.

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 8:47am \| IP Logged

Finally! I'm so glad, Chari.

I've used blogger in 2005 and Typepad in 2006 and now I'm slowly trying to switch over to Wordpress for 2007.

I really liked Blogger. I've enjoyed Typepad. The Wordpress seems to have the look of Typepad, "floating"set-up which I love, and it's FREE.

HTH!

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 9:22am \| IP Logged

I'm a new blogger too and picked Wordpress because it's 1) it's free and 2) it seemed to be the easiest.

Just a hint about WordPress: You have to pay money to "upgrade" if you fill up your "image quota," but you can write forever without cost. So you can get around filling up your image space if you post your pictures at flickr.com (which allows you to post the picture on your blog using their URL space -- I think that's the technical way to describe it)

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 10:49am \| IP Logged

I use homeschooljournal. It is free and easy to use and I have been very satisfied with the support. I really like that it is ad-free. I think sign-ups are closed right now because they are getting ready to do a big upgrade to a new server. That should be soon. I also use flickr for photo hosting to save space on my blog-highly recommend that service.

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 12:44pm \| IP Logged

I use blogger and homeschoolblogger.com. They are both free. I liked to learn about HTML and how to change my template and blogger was very good for that. Homeschoolblogger has a great community. Really I enjoy them both! I also use Flickr for photo hosting and photobucket and Librarything for books.

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 12:50pm \| IP Logged

i second elena's suggestion for flickr.

another option:

you can have pics hosted at multiply, then link to them from your free blog, either at wordpress, or blogger.

and i love wordpress, for versatility and ease of use and the continuous updating of the software! i'm still looking at other hosts for pics though, we've had pbase for a few years; multiply is free but they do put a watermark on your pics. i guess you can't have it both ways, free and watermark-free.

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 3:20pm \| IP Logged

So happy to hear this Chari, I have a blog somewhere and it is free, but I don't use it because I'm a nerd who can't figure it out

But I LOVE to read others blogs, and it will be sooooo fun to follow along your trip with you....go for it!

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