1. A potentially good writing exercise is to force yourself to update your Status (the "Matt is [...]" sentence) every day. (I actually learned this from Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, days (weeks?) before I joined Facebook.)
2. If you're not very techy and you want to set up a collaborative weblog within minutes, he most convenient place might just be your own Facebook "wall." (That depends on how easy it is to grant/revoke people's permission to write on it. AFAICT any of my friends can write on my wall; I haven't looked around to see how configurable that is.)
Second-easiest would be Blogger, of course (if you have a Gmail account or have used Blogger in the past). Maybe that would even be easiest. The tricky part is you have to remember to bother to go to blogger.com, which you'd never do except to blog. (Facebook you'd log in for all sorts of reasons, anything from quasi-Scrabble to zombie tomfoolery.)
Posted by Matt Bruce at October 17, 2007 01:57 PM