To summarise the blogging talk given earlier today, the best way to understand blogs is to try one out for yourself! The two main blogging sites mentioned were wordpress.com and blogspot.com, each of which have a simple sign up process and you really only need an email address to get started. If you want to start an anonymous blog, sign up for an email at gmail.com, hotmail.com or any free mail service and use that address, though your email address is generally hidden by default anyway in most blogging software.

The examples of different blogs on the internet shown today:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://gizmodo.com/
http://lifehacker.com/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://www.treehugger.com/
http://chopsicles.com/ (this blog!)
http://openobjects.blogspot.com/ (my sister Mia’s blog)

Also mentioned was a blogging site http://posterous.com/ which will create a blog from any emails posted to post@posterous.com, which I thought was pretty nifty and perhaps useful for people who don’t like the standard way of blogging. There are also numerous other ways to create and use blogs, like installing one on your own server but I’ve chosen not to address that option in detail. 

Finally, to prove that youtube embedding works in wordpress, the video shown today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI