T. L. Pakii Pierce is posting some very excellent tutorials on blogging at his site called How To Blog For Fun & Profit! Some of our favorites include Publishing Your First Blog Article and Easy Content Publishing with Blog Editors, which include videos demonstrating the techniques he describes. Planning Your Blog is another article worth reading. read them all at:

http://blogforfunandprofit.blogware.com/

Xemu's Long-Winded Game Industry Ramblings is a weblog by gaming industry insider Xemu, who in this article disputes Nintendo president Satoru Iwata's assertion that innovation drives the game industry.

http://xemu.blogharbor.com/

Cheese Is Funny, says Abacquer. After reading this destined-to-become-a-classic post, I know you will agree. Just don't get too close to the cheese event horizon...

http://unbecominglevity.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/4/24/42547.html

China Adventure is a weblog journaling one family's trip to China for a year. A recent post tells the story of one of the children starting kindergarten.

http://chinaadventure.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/2/27/23421.html

We wish them luck!

Daniel Swartz is an Internet developer and musician blogging from Munich Germany. Check out his site design: Daniel's site is a great example of how customizing your template can create a stunning and unique style for your weblog.

http://egon.blogharbor.com

Fast Food Chicken Icon o'the Week is a hilarious feature of the BrennerWorld weblog. Read the analysis of Golden Chick, Chester Fried, and Creole Chicken.

http://brennerworld.blogware.com

A Year In The Life is the weblog of a man who headed overseas to Iraq for a 1 year contract. He first posted on January 6, 2004 as he was preparing to leave, and now is hard at work - 14 hours a day.

http://ayitl.blogharbor.com/blog

Tam is going to tell us about her life in Nevada. She writes that she likes the emoticons, and that:

I was just a little too annoyed and disappointed with AOL's journal feature so I went on an internet investigation adventure and found this tool.

She is talking about the BlogHarbor service. Not yours truly. Tam wonders what a Trackback is... So I am going to give her a Trackback. Trackbacks, anyone?

http://tamara.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/2/5/18392.html

Great article on image formats for your digital camera, for the somewhat technically savvy digital photographer. The author says:

This small document is intended to answer the question Why would I want to shoot pictures with my digital camera set to RAW mode, instead of JPEG? in a non-technical way.

Read the article here:

http://dw.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/1/9/12757.html

Dakini is a telephone triage nurse with some very interesting stories and observations. She writes:

The absolutely most interesting thing ever said to me by a caller was "I need help, my husband just hurt his tentacles." I was close to giving her the phone number for a marine biologist when I realized the body part involved was...

Enjoy Dakini's blog here:

http://dakini.blogharbor.com

Great writing about everything from Elvis to basketball to bunless burgers - and that's just from today's postings!

http://jrcollins.blogharbor.com/

The Political Divide is a group weblog written by writers who "represent every spot on the ideological spectrum." Today one writer posts about Karma and Guns, yesterday another writes about taxation and liberals. No matter what side of the political divide you are on, this weblog is sure to provide an interesting read if not a lively debate.

http://www.thepoliticaldivide.com/

Moliere makes an impressive blogging debut with a funny and poignant vignette about a father, a son, a rooftop, and a blob.

http://moliere.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/1/1/11336.html

How would you like to be the "harbinger of bad news"? Brock Meeks feels like an unwitting modern day Grinch...

http://brightave.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2003/12/24/10725.html

Ragamuffin posted an intriguing article asking the question - is it right for the church to keep money in the bank? The answer might not be as clear as you think. Ragamuffin will challenge your assumptions...

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