Best way to start a blog?

[mark n]

You'll need a domain name and hosting account - both can be registered for fairly cheap (GoDaddy for the domain, HostGator for the shared hosting account).

Next, use software like Wordpress (http://www.wordpress.org) as your content management system. Since it can be used as a blog right out of the box, it will be relatively quick and easy to set up. There are numerous free themes you can use, that can be downloaded off of that site.

Start off by writing articles, and lots of them. Make them unique and full of useful content that is not seen on other similar sites.

The hardest part about blogging is that you're going to be "writing to nobody" for a long time - possibly even up to a year -- until you start really getting noticed and ranked on the internet for keywords. Unfortunately, it will also require you to promote your site on a daily basis - get other relevant sites to link to it, promote it on social, etc. Promoting the site will be far more tedious than actually writing the content for it.

Good luck!!