I have been doing a lot of work on Blogs and Blogging lately, and am preparing a book to use on a workshop I can run.
I have been exploring different hosts:
This is on Edublogs.org
There’s also Wordpress.com
There’s a lot of similarity between the two – the themes for the pages are similar [and sometimes the same] and although the tools are in different places, they use the same ones.
Wordpress will not you embed your own video unless you upgrade, yet Edublogs will. Both will let you link to video on a website:
