These are some tools downloaded from https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/avee/blogstoteach/blog_links.html
Free blog hosting services
Blogger
Blogsome
James Farmer's edublogs and uniblogs
Live Journal
LifeType
blog customizing services
Drupal (an open source tool allowing you to produce highly customized websites and blogs)
Wordpress (free)
Movable Type (not free)
blog aggregator or subscription services
other sites of interest for blogs
Technorati (a searching and ranking site for blogs)
Google Blog Search
James Farmer's list from 2005 of multi-user blogging tools
Flickr (for storing, searching and tagging pictures)
Tag Clouds on Technorati
Recommended reading on blogs
UW Professor Greg Downey's paper: "Using weblogs in the classroom at UW-Madison
Stephen Downes' article: "Educational Blogging"
WIDE webtext (in the online journal Kairos): "Why Teach Digital Writing"
James Farmer and Anne Bartlett-Bragg's paper: "Blogs@Anywhere: High fidelity online communication"
Richard Ferdig and Kaye D. Trammell's article: "Content Delivery in the Blogosphere"
