Yes, blogger.com is very easy to do, and Wordpress requires that you
host the blog yourself...although this can be done without having your
own server or domain...but some assembly is still required.

These sites also have free blogging (and are Open Source driven)...
http://www.livejournal.com/
http://22blog.com/

This is a pretty comprehensive listing of blog hosts (with good info on
RSS and ATOM, too):
http://www.lights.com/weblogs/hosting.html

Atom is another XML-based form of newsfeed syndication, like RSS. The
links below have more on the subject, but it should work for you and is
_mostly_ compatible with RSS readers.  However, you had better check to
see if the Ximian Planet can use an ATOM feed.

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=697&topic=36
http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-atom-format-02.html


On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:54 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Rick Barnes wrote:
> 
> > May I suggest Wordpress as your blogging software, it is Open Source,
> > very powerful (yet simple) and a new greatly improved version, 1.5, was
> > released yesterday:
> > http://wordpress.org/
> 
> I see... Someone at the discuss list suggested blogger.com, what do you 
> think of that one?
> 
> I'm not sure I want to hold the blog myself.
> 
> Someone also recommended FreeYourFiles.com ans an OOo-friendly blog.
> 
> Apparently blogger.com has something called Atom feeds. Do you know what 
> those are? Do I want that?
> 
> Thanks for the info!
> 
> Cheers,
-- 
Rick Barnes
www.nostabo.net

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