bloglines are down for maintainance, however, their office message is quite interesting. it is called bloglines plumber, if you go right now, you may see it yourself.
http://bloglines.com/

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Nice strategy. I mean when people see the "error" messages on sites they usually visit; they get furious. This would be one nice way to curb that problem.

haha ya i've seen things like that before, on one site i went to the error 404 page had a robots saying all these things and you and you can answer his questions. i thought it was pretty funky.

You know what, why don't you use BlogSpot/Blogger? Google runs them. Try that out... For now, I trust Google.

Everyone trusts Google.

yah i went to 1 tht had a robot tht u could type stuff in and it would say wut u typed

Actually, one that I've found works wonders and has a great online community, kinda like this one, is livejournal.com...you can either get free or paid blogs, and not only that, but I can pay for a year for only $25 American, which I think is pretty cool and fair... Or you can try something like Moveable Type or Greymatter, both of which I've heard are quite good.

bloglines is not a blog service provider, it is a online aggregator, means you can store multiple feeds in you account and check them out everyday, there are many client software now doing this kind of thing but I like the online one best because you could go anywhere using any computer and still be able to check you favorate feeds. There are a couple of online aggregators like bloglines, feedster, I found bloglines is the best so far.

For personal blog, blogger is a nice choice for starters, but it lacks features and you can do very limited things in terms of design or hacking. The best blogging service I found is wordpress, however you do need a server supports sql and php to set up a wordpress blog, that is where trap17 comes in. Now, trap17+wordpress, pretty impressive and powerful combination for a personal blog.

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