Saw a blog maintained by Rajdeep Sardesai - he started it in 2005 after launching CNN-IBN his new channel. He has regularly contributed since then - two or three articles a month. All articles have received 400 plus comments. This indicates that the series is well read by the public. I got a clearcut idea of maintaining a blog.
Google has many facilities on their site. Once you open an account you get an email address, start a blog at the blogger, commence a group or participate in an existing group, maintain a schedule with the help of a calendar, save and edit documents, others can be invited to edit simultaneously, have the picasa software to process your images, uploading and downloading images in various pixels and formats has become easy, one can also post photos online. The pack has some cool gadgets to use on your desktop. The reader (RSS reader) provides you with news updates besides the separate Google news service. Recently I discovered that they also provide you with a web site building facility that too without any advertisement. I had earlier tried Geocities by Yahoo and Tripod. They provide free web hosting service but the space is less as compared to Google's 100 mb and the site or page is always cluttered by advertisings. On the contrary Google's website building facility is superb, you ie the owner can easily attach files to be downloaded by other collaborators or viewers. Pages can be added and a database can be maintained - all this is free and working and that too in the capitalist world of fierce competition.
