What's the best blogging website?

[Erin]

I want to start writing a blog but how do I get people to actually read it? And what is the best website to put my blog on?

[Jim]

Not quite sure what makes quite ordinary people believe that the worldwide Internet community would want to read their blog. Only celebrity blogs attract widespread attention

[Lon]

facebook or twitter or wordpress.com, get friends to get friends to read it wordpress would be best, but twitter is the best if you want free

[Sunrise]

http://wordpress.com/
WordPress.com is an easy and powerful way to start blogging.

http://www.plurk.com/
Plurk is a social journal for your life that lets you publish and share your thoughts. Share your life easily with friends, family and fans.

http://www.vox.com/
Vox is a new personal blogging service. It’s all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about.
Control exactly who gets to see each of your posts and photos.
See all the posts from your friends and family on one page.
Bring in content from other web services you already use (Amazon, YouTube, more).

http://www.blogupp.com/
No signup. No email and privacy exposure
No ad submission and no efforts
No animation and annoying ads
Multilanguage support
Cheat-proof and fair sharing
WordPress platform and alike friendly
Targeted readers reach
Welcome bonus for everyone
Best de facto exchange ratio (10:9)

http://www.wibiya.com/
Wibiya features:
Create a blog community using Facebook Connect
Gain traffic from Facebook through your members news feed
Engage readers and raise pageviews with applications such as post navigator and blog search
Track your traffic growth through simple analytics tools
Share your tweets with your readers in real time

http://www.plurk.com/
Plurk is a social journal for your life that lets you publish and share your thoughts. Share your life easily with friends, family and fans.
http://www.springwidgets.com/
What can you do with a SpringWidget? You can create an RSS reader with multiple feeds; badges for your profile on social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo; countdown application widgets and other cool gadgets for your blog.

http://sweetcircles.com
SweetCircles.com is a Feature-rich Social Weblogging Application to publish thoughts and network with like-minded people on the Web.

http://www.blerp.com/
Express yourself in a totally new way.
Speak Your Mind: With Blerp, you can go to any website and post anything you want. Spark relevant discussions right on the page.

http://www.skywrite.me/

http://www.postling.com/
Save time by managing all of your social media from a single place.
No need to log into different social media sites every day. Postling does all the work for you. Postling supports Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Squarespace, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr

http://pagegoblin.com/
Pagegoblin is a social blogging site. It combines blogs, microblogs, wikis and forums.

http://regator.com/
Regator is a website that gathers the world’s best blog posts and organizes them in a way that makes it easy to find the things you need—and fun to discover the things you never knew you wanted. It’s here to help you find, discuss, share, rate, and organize information on the topics you care about.

http://plerb.com/
Plerb.com is a free social microblogging service and chat community. You can start your own microblog, connect with friends, meet interesting new people, share photos and find new business contacts.

http://www.babelyou.com/
Babelyou is an online network functioning, in many languages, which enables people to make coommunicate worldwide.

http://swimwire.com/

http://www.twing.com/
Search and Discover Communities with Twing’s Discussion Forums Search Engine

http://www.groops.net
At Groops you connect with likeminded people in local interest groups. The goal is to meet for shared activities.

http://podobo.com/
Podobo is about ideas and thoughts. It’s about finding out what people are thinking and, linking them together.

http://momingle.com
MoMingle.com is a place for people to post location-based messages on a map

http://www.soup.io/
Soup is a tumblelog, a super-easy blog that can do more than just text: post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events.
Make your personal remix of the web: When you see something cool online, just click a button to add it to your Soup.

http://www.sociableblog.com/
Latest news, article, video on social networking, social media, social community and social software from worldwide.

http://diary.com/
http://www.pringo.com/
http://www.neeetz.com/

http://www.myebook.com/
Create your eBooks, Photo albums, Comics, Magazines, Fanzines, CV, Brochures, Books… When you’re done, publish and share your ebook full of photos, video, audio with friends, family, and the world.

http://socialthing.com/
http://www.snappville.com/
http://www.kontain.com

http://www.palmood.com/
Palmood has an easy and fast way to blog your mood and share it with your friends, family, and the rest of the world.

http://shoutem.com/
Shout’Em is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like Pownce. It is up to you

http://www.livejournal.com/
LiveJournal is an online journal service with an emphasis on user interaction. A basic, fully-functional account is free, while paid accounts receive access to premium features.

http://grou.ps/
http://www.socialgo.com/
http://www.tumblr.com/
http://www.blogr.com/


http://www.zooped.com/
With Zooped you can connect with old friends, make new friends and connect with local businesses. Build your own play list up to 15 songs for your profile page, musicians can share up to 10 songs with their fans. Zooped is compatible with any MSRS, customize your profiles easily.

http://www.ipernity.com/
With Ipernity you can:- Publish whatever you like : blog, photos, videos, audios- Customize your own Ipernity page (like at Myspace)- Share what you want with people who matter to you or with the whole world- Create a powerful page with only the stuff that matters to you

http://hypem.com/
The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page.

http://share.ovi.com/
Share on Ovi lets you upload and share all your photos, videos and other media in one simple place. Plus, it’s easy to use and completely free. Create your own channels and then choose to share them with the world, or just a few close friends. Or for a truly shared experience, you can allow others to add media to your channels, even non-members.

http://socialmention.com/
Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.