Free Blog Services For 'Gratis' Blogging

Blogging is the new rage of the century. What with computers becoming personal, smaller, cheaper and more efficient, just about everyone owns a computer and just about everyone writes a blog. A blog is defines as a collection of thoughts, events or stories written by a person as his personal notes which if the person allows to be published, can be viewed by the world. As always, help is ready at hand. One need not take the pains to pay and set up a domain and then publishing one's thoughts. Free blog services like Wordpress and Blogger jumped on the blogging bandwagon right when the blogging boom started.

Blogger, one of the most famous free blog services, was started by 3 friends in San Francisco, who wanted to make a grand entrance in the newly developing Internet scenario. It started off small, running short on funds and coming very close to the brink of getting wiped out. Their lucky break came in the form of Google, who wanted to buy their invention. A deal was struck and the 3 friends went on to work with Google in its developing teams. When Google took the advertising in its hands, the concept of blogging really caught on and Blogger made it big in the field.

As the website of Blogger very simply describes the process of writing a blog as 'Publish Thoughts..Get Feedback', it is indeed that simple with the help of this free blog service. Creating an account on Blogger is the easiest of tasks and is child's play. All one needs to do is to create a Google account and choose a name for the blog. Once these simple steps are done, the blog has been set up and one can start writing in his blog.

Wordpress, also one the most famous free blog service, holds the distinction of being the largest self-hosted blogging tool available on the net. Established in 2003 by Ryan Boren and Matt Mullenweg, it has grown to be so popular that it now boasts of millions of blogs and tons more added everyday. Wordpress has an open source architecture, meaning people around the world work on it to tweak, bend and customize it for performance. Wordpress, compared to Blogger, is not as simple to set up. It boasts of a huge amount of features and it is up to the user to select a look and a style that suits him.

Wordpress also involves downloading a Wordpress software that contains all the features required to customize one's blog space. To avoid this technicality Wordpress also started a service called Wordpress.com which is similar to Blogger. In short, though both Blogger and Wordpress enjoy a colossal amount of audiences worldwide, both of them are contrastingly different in the features that they provide. Blogger aims at making it as simple and easy for its users as it can get while Wordpress is for the ones with the know how. Other services like Technorati, Del.icio.us and Sphere have also made it big in the realm of free blog services, employing the same technology and providing the same easy to use features.

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