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The Wall Street Journal interviewed Elizabeth Lawley for their December 2004 Journal Report on Technology. Here’s n excerpt from the article, entitled 20 Questions:

18. How do I start blogging?

Like a growing number of citizens of the Net, Elizabeth Lawley, an associate professor of information technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has a blog — a personal Web site where she posts a running diary chronicling everything from her Greek vacation to trips to conferences. While Dr. Lawley used blog software from Six Apart Ltd. called MovableType that is geared toward more sophisticated users, she recommends that first-time bloggers try services such as Six Apart’s TypePad or Google’s Blogger.

The Blogger service, for instance, is available free at Blogger.com5, and Google says users can be publishing their thoughts on the Web in about a minute.