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The She-Devil and Hippie Paulette are back again, baby! Here’s the …read more »

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I wrote an article some time back about getting online for little to no money. By getting online I meant an online presence, a website of some kind to provide the rest of the world with information about your life, your interests, your rants, or whatever else you’d like to share. In this article I mentioned Wordpress.com blogs. I also promised a follow up article on MySpace and its role in the grand landscape of personal online publishing.

The blog concept started out basically as a “weblog”; a simple online journal. That, in and of itself, is not too impressive. Not much more impressive than a pad and pencil; the way we’d been journaling for years. The primary advantage is that that pad of paper is now available literally for the entire world to read. In the past, exposure like that went for big bucks; now anyone with a computer and the ability to read and write can attain that same potential exposure. Sure, with the deluge of blogs and self-published content out there …read more »

Things in the world of personal pages have changed pretty dramatically over the past several years. When I first got online, around 1998, personal pages were clunky and difficult. That’s why I ended up teaching myself html. Companies like Geocities and Angelfire offered webspace and maybe some rudimentary tools for designing pages and that was about all. html editors were on the market but despite allowing users to create html pages it provided very little in the realm of site design and navigation.

Somewhere along the way (I was a little late on this trend) weblogs, or “blogs”, came into being. The blog allowed end users …read more »