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How to start a blog.

There are many ways to start an open blog. One is to download Windows Live Writer which works with many free blogging services.

One such free blogging service is on Windows Live itself: Among its many services, you can start your own Windows Live Space, and part of your space can be a blog.

You can download a free copy of Windows Live Writer from this blog: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/ (which at the same time can give you an idea what your own blog can look like, in case you had not noticed that this is a Windows Live blog also…).

I do not recall whether you will be given the opportunity of signing up for a Windows Live Account during your initial configuration of Windows Live Writer. Just give it a try – if it asks for your Windows Live Account, you can still get one here: https://signup.live.com.

However students may want to consider blogging with MS-Word 2007 instead. Microsoft’s offers to students MS-Office 2007 at a considerable discount:  http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-uk/default.aspx

And yes: the Windows Live Blog lacks, among many things, multi-tag search which some WordPress users managed to implement quite a while ago. Turning out more machine-readable information, shouldn’t that be part of “Project Cool”? 😉

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