I have noticed by watching my tracker stats that someone who has visited my blog a couple times has been searching for how to create a blog. So I thought I'd throw up a quick post on my blogging setup and the other setups that are available. I personally use the fantastic blogging engine called DasBlog. DasBlog is built using ASP.NET and is very easy for developers to customize. For example it was really easy to create my own custom theme template for my blog. Also it was relatively easy for me to build my Flickr Photos page into DasBlog. DasBlog does require that you have your own web hosting that supports ASP.NET (I use WebHost4Life). DasBlog is currently maintained by Scott Hanselman and Omar Shahine.

For those who don't currently have an ASP.NET webhost or aren't web savvy enough to setup something like DasBlog, there are plenty of great free hosted blogging services out there. For starters there is Microsoft's MSN Spaces. Spaces is a blogging service that not only allows you to create a blog, but also is great for sharing photos, creating custom lists for things like projects, and is also going to have some great features dealing with integrating content from Xbox360. A couple other popular free blogging services are Google's Blogger, and Yahoo's Yahoo! 360