Why Blog?

Here are some articles on what blogs are good for:
Why Businesses should blog
Why Blog?

Publishing is one aspect of blogging. The other more common is simply subscribing to and reading blogs using a special program called a News Aggregator (AKA News readers, RSS readers)

Before anyone starts blogging themselves, they usually become a reader
of blogs.  Only after experiencing the technology do you usually "get
it" and start thinking about keeping their own blog.

It’s easy to find lists and reviews of News Aggregators but here is a quick short list of the ones I would recommend.