Microsoft on Blogging – You knew it was coming

As Renee Blodgett reports in her blog, Down the Avenue:

“Microsoft's MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week. MSN Spaces is positioning itself as a direct competitor to blog-creation and hosting tools, such as Blogger, Blog*Spot, LiveJournal and TypePad. Microsoft plans to also pitch MSN Spaces as a way to allow users to more easily share photo albums and music lists as well.”

The Yahoo news story by Mary Jo Foley added that MSN also is beta testing a service called MSN Blogbot, which is a blog-search service.

Down the Avenue is a great blog to watch and I added it to my RSS feed. Here are her thoughts on blogging. She compares her blog to her mother’s kitchen as a warm place to engage in conversations. Like many bloggers that I have talked with, she engages in blogging more for a sense of community that to promote her business. I think this is where the passion and commitment comes from.