The document discusses two main types of blogs: free hosting platforms like Blogger, Over-blog, and Wordpress that are easy to use but provide less customization, and self-hosted blogs that require more technical knowledge but offer more freedom and customization. It provides pros and cons of each type, such as free hosting platforms being cheap and ready to use while self-hosted blogs allow for more security and options.

1. blogging course two

2. Two main sort of blogs
Tonight ladies and gentlemen there is a fight

3. Here's the contestants
Free Hosting Platforms
vs
Self Hosted blogs

4. Free Hosting platform
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Blogger
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Over-blog
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Wordpress
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Weebly
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Tumblr
etc...
each of these one have got different characteristics
and different numerical identities

5. Main advantages
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It's easy to use

It's ready to use
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It's cheap or free
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There's an hotline or an deskhelp behind
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There is SEO because of the platform
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You don't need any technical konowledge to use
it

6. Self hosted blog
For a self hosted blog you need
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A software (Wordpress, Serendipity Movable
Type, Dotclear...)

An hosting place
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A domain name
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Sometimes an uploading software

7. Main advantages
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More options
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More freedom
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More security
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More customisation

8. And now
Let's start and practice