The REAL .net blogsphere centres around blogs.msdn.com
(mostly used by MS teams and individuals) and
weblogs.asp.net (used by a select few). How can a
developer in the field feel part of the community if
they have to host their thoughts elsewhere?
Chris: I host my own site and perfectly happy with this
:-)
About a place to blog, just about anywhere will do. I
find that I usually read blogs in my reader, and I
really don't know/care much about where it came from.
Try www.blogger.com
I wouldnt say there is a "real" .net
blogsphere, many of the most popular .NET bloggers are
not on one of those sites. I would recommend
codebetter.com if they are accepting new members. It's
not completely free I dont think, but the best things in
life never are.
I would recommend GeeksWithBlogs.net. The admins are
great and are constantly working to improve the
community, including adding feeds that they will be
manually constructing to have relevant information to
certain topics.
Also, they've grown from 150 or so members to over 400
in the past few months.
If you can get him on weblogs.asp.net you can't wrong. I
hasn't failed me for the last year or two. Blogger is
always good too and they have hosting on BlogSpot (if
you don't mind the ads). You have more control with
Blogger with the template but they're both just as easy
to use.
DotNetJunkies is relatively widely read, but some may
feel it doesn't fit the "well
maintained" qualification. CodeBetter.com would
be great, but I believe having a blog there is pretty
much "invite only". The only choices
remaining are DevAuthority.com and GeeksWithBlogs.net
Neither is as widely read as DotNetJunkies (as far as I
know), but there are definitely people who subscribe to
the main feeds of both sites. (Me for instance)
I was wondering the same question.. how to open a
bloging account on weblogs.asp.net.. do u need to sign
up or it's a invitation only thing..