If you thought a house was the only reward for Kyle MacDonald’s creative paperclip trading efforts through blogging, think again.
It seems his story has attracted the likes of publishers and producers, with a recent news release confirming that he has landed a book deal with Random House, and a film deal with DreamWorks.
This just [...]

Just a couple of days back (or is it yesterday?), the Indian blogosphere, and to an extent the international blogosphere, started simmering with the news that the Indian government was clamping down on several “radical” sites – most notable among them being Blogger, Geocities (and even Typepad it seems).
Some commenters are asserting that this is [...]

Despite the rather negative stance of many bloggers against Blogger (or Blogspot) given its many limitations and uhmm… spam blogs, a large number of bloggers still use Blogger – a service which is pretty effective for many purposes, and is ultimately free.
This, of course, is reflected by the considerable number of Google searches coming this [...]

Blogger / Blogspot is such a popular free blog platform / host that all of its default templates, though well-designed, have already reached the “boring, been there” status. This is compounded by the fact that good Blogger template designers are few and far between.
So, it’s nice to see that Gecko and Fly are distributing some [...]

WordPress’ functionality and ease of use for single blogs is probably unrivaled at the moment. So, for those who want to create a full featured blog for free, WordPress would be an excellent choice.
So far, these are the free WordPress hosts I have found.

WordPress.com – No advertisements placed on blogs
Blogsome – Optional advertisements [...]