The service I have chosen to use is Blogspot, because I know that it is really easy to set up and use. I don't have lots of time to spend working on it, but if I do want to improve it I know that I can pretty easily, and I also have friends who use it and are very familiar with the tools associated with it - so if I ever needed help I could turn to them really easily.
Setting up the blog was ridiculously easy. I've made blogs before (that pretty much died after about a week) but this program in particular was very user-friendly, and I greatly appreciated that. The one problem I did have was coming up with a name for the blog itself, but other than that it was very simple. To be honest it was almost frighteningly simple, and it just reinforced my knowledge of the fact that anyone can post anything on the internet.
I do feel like I'm talking to the void most of the time when I do use blogs, however there are opportunities for interactions with "real" people - others can make their own posts on your blog or comment on others' and I can do the same on other blogs. I actually like the feature where you can post the blogs that you follow, so that you share the more interesting ones with others.
I guess I would consider using blogs again after this class, but knowing my habit for not following through on these sort of things, I doubt my blogging would go anywhere. However I have friends that are avid bloggers and I really enjoy seeing the fascinating things they find on the internet.
One final thing that I just noticed - blogspot saves your posts as your typing them (every minute or so) in case you navigate away from the page by accident or erase important information!!!
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