BLOG OVERVIEW - DEFINITION OF A BLOG
Wikipedia - You'll find a good amount of info about blogs here, with a short description of the different types of weblogs, which include Personal, Thoughtful, FriendBlog, Topical, News, Collaborative, Political, Legal, Directory, Media, Corporate, Advice, Religious, Audio, Photography, and Video. Lots and lots of links on this page.

BLOG PUBLISHING TOOLS
Blogger - Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP. Good for beginners. Create an account, name your blog, and choose from predesigned templates or design your own template. Put your blog on your web host or use Blogger.com's free hosting service, Blogspot.com.
LiveJournal - LiveJournal is an easy but powerful and customizable personal publishing tool, built on open source software. Joining the site is free. Users can choose to upgrade their accounts for extra features.
Movable Type - Movable Type is a weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. Has powerful customization options, and a simple and clear interface.
WordPress - WordPress is a personal blog publishing platform with a focus on web standards and usability. Free.
TypePad - TypePad is an easy-to-use blogging service for both beginners and professionals. Offers a 30-day free trial.

BLOG SOFTWARE - COMPARISON CHART
Online Journalism Review - compares the standard features of popular blogging tools.

BLOG SOFTWARE - REVIEWS
Forbes - Best Of The Wed - Blog Tools - short reviews of sites that offer the best tools for setting up and managing a blog.

BLOGGING JARGON
USC Annenberg - offers a short glossary of blog technology (scroll down the page).

INSPIRING BLOG DESIGNS
Karen Cheng - simple and friendly, with a sketch book look.
Veerle - nice layout and color scheme, has a subtle background pattern.
Zeldman - one of the most popular design blogs ever.
Jason Santa Maria - done up to look like a paperback book.
CreativeBits - this community blog shows how a dark look can also work well.

BLOGGER WORKFLOW TIPS
ToDone! — This blog by Keith Robinson offers tips on personal productivity and getting things done, and has some great tips on how to become a more productive blogger, including how to set-up a production workflow.

HOW-TO BLOG BOOKS
The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca Blood is a collection of 34 essays that has many good reviews at Amazon.
Publishing A Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide by Elizabeth Castro is a great reference book to have if you choose to use Blogger.com to publish your blog.

BLOGGING EVANGELIST
Micro Persuasion — Steve Rubel offers an amazing blog with an abundance of links to great sites. By spending a little time exploring the posts you'll find a huge amount of information you can use to set up and improve your new blog.

HOW TO MAKE MONEY BLOGGING
ProBlogger — Darren Rowse offers an assortment of valuable tips that can help bloggers add income streams to their blogs. Take time to read through all the posts as there is an enormous amount of information here.
JenSense — A collection of news and info about Google AdSense, as well as other contextual advertising options.

FREE FONTS FOR BLOGS
DaFont.com — You'll find a huge collection of great free fonts here.
Wanted Fonts — Lots of free fonts. On left side navigation you'll see categories.
HighFonts.com — Another nice assortment of fonts you can download for free.
For a full list of websites that offer free fonts visit our Free Fonts page.

FREE PHOTOS FOR BLOGS
Stock.XCHNG — A great source of quality photos that are free of charge.
Pixel Perfect — Offers a growing collection of free stock photos and illustrations.
StockVault.net — This stock photo resource offers free images.
For a full list of websites that offer free photos visit our Free Stock Photos page.

FREE BLOG TEMPLATES
Blogger Templates offers original skins to personalize your blog.
Blog Fashions offers an assortment of attractive blog templates.

FREE BLOG BACKGROUNDS, TILES & PATTERNS
CitrusMoon offers a wide assortment of pretty tiles and backgrounds.
SquidFingers has a big selection of beautiful patterns.
For more free patterns and textures visit our Free Backgrounds page.

FREE COLOR SCHEMES FOR BLOGS
WellStyled.com offers a very easy to use color scheme generator.
Colormatch Redux is a complete color scheme generator which includes the ability to export your chosen palette to a Photoshop ACT file or an Illustrator AI file.
ColorMatch 5k is a utility that will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your blog. Define a single color that you like. Matching colors will be calculated.
ColorBlender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design.

BLOG NETWORKS
WebLogs Inc. runs a blog network that features independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Some popular blogs include Engadget, Download Squad, and The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog.
Gawker Media is an independent media company with a network of blogs that includes Gawker, an online review of pop culture, and Wonkette, an analogous title for U.S. politics. Also look at their popular Gizmodo, and the always wonderful LifeHacker.

BLOG SEARCH ENGINES & BLOG NEWS
Technocrati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs. Technorati tracks the number of links, and the perceived relevance of blogs, as well as the real-time nature of blogging.
Daypop searches news sites, weblogs and RSS feeds for current events and breaking news. Updates every hour. Their Daypop Top 40 Links tracks the top 40 most popular links in the weblog community at any given point in time.
Feedster is a search engine for RSS feeds, which constantly monitors the world of blogs. Feedster also includes an image search.
IceRocket is a meta-search engine that also offers tag searching for its blog search. You can search by specific tag or browse a listing of tags.
The Blog Herald keeps you updated with the latest blog news and developments. Recently voted a top 100 blog by Cnet.

STANDALONE AND WEB-BASED RSS NEWSREADER
Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon is a popular RSS newsreader for Windows.
Ranchero Software’s NetNewsWire is a popular RSS newsreader for Mac.
BlogLines is a free online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines there is no software to download or install. You simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device.