Blog Portals

Centralized, customizable tools that provide access to a variety of blog searching and publishing tools.

Resources in this category:

Blog Flux
http://blogflux.com/

Designed as a "central destination for the blogosphere, providing you everything you need to get your blog up and running. From a blog directory, to themes, stat tracking, and advanced services like our poll and quiz makers, Blogflux is the only resource you need to get your blog online."

BlogExplosion
http://www.blogexplosion.com/

Free blogging service with an array of tools aimed at creating a community of users visiting each others blogs and thereby raising each member's blog traffic.

Bloglines
http://www.bloglines.com/

A blog host, search engine, and directory that lets you easily manage and share RSS news feeds. The site indexes millions of news articles each day.

Corante
http://www.corante.com/

Corante is host to numerous blogs and provides daily news digests about science, technology, and the science and technology industry. Probably the best place to start when looking for science-related blogs.

DeepBlog.com: An Easy Guide & Portal to Great Blogs
http://deepblog.com/

DeepBlog is devoted to being a way for blog newcomers to quickly get acquainted with great bloggers and for others to quickly find substantive blogs in the subject they are looking for in its directory.

ITtoolbox Blogs
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/

ITtoolbox is a website offering a knowledge base to all the segments of the IT industry, offering tech support, vendor solution evaluations, industry research, industry news, and career support. This site is a directory of blogs hosted by ITtoolbox that are written by professionals in various segments of the IT industry.

LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com/

Free and easy to use yet robust and customizable, LiveJournal is a popular blogging tool providing hosting services, blog directories, search, and social networking services.

MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/

In the hopes of exploring the potential of weblogs and in breaking down social barriers, MetaFilter allows anyone to contribute a link or comment to this weblog. People can get the privilege of posting a link to the main page after commenting once or twice and after being registered with the site for a week or so. The result is a grab bag of blogs that changes each day.

TravelBlog | Travel Journals, Travel Blogs, Diaries and Photos
http://www.travelblog.org/

Collecting travel blogs from trips all over the world, the site offers free hosting for and viewing of blogging about travel. The bloggers can add photos of their journeys as well.