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A sideblog is a separate mini blog placed in the sidebar of a blog. Items which can be put in the sideblog:

1. Updates: A sideblog can be a good way to display the updates about the blog.
2. Important points: If you have some text or links which you want your users to have a look then you can put it on the sideblog of your blog as its quite visible over there.

Steps to create a sideblog in Blogger blog:

These instructions are for the classic design. However, it can be used for any other design.

1. Login to your admin area.
2. Click on Template tab and then on Edit HTMl.
3. Find this code under <!– Begin #sidebar –>: 

<!–
<p>This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.</p>
 –>

Enter your text between <p> and </p> and remove the <!– and –>. This text will act as a sideblog for your blog. For example I have added the sideblog “This is a sideblog. You can add your items over here.” in the test blog: http://blogforthatsblog.blogspot.com

A collaborative blog is a blog where the posts are written by many users. It is emerging as a nice way to run a blog as there are many authors and the blog is never short of posts. Generally, the theme is not changed by the bloggers in this type of blog.

Types of collaborative blog:

1. Invite only: In this type of blog the authors of the the blog are selected by the founder of the blog. The advantage of this type of blog is that there are many authors for the blog so the load of the admin is greatly reduced.
   You can create a free invite only collaborative blog with the help of blogger:
   1. Create a normal blog with the help of blogger. You can read my post “Steps to create a free blog in Blogger” if you want to know how to create a free blog using blogger.
   2. Login in to the admin area with your id and pwd.
   3. Click on Settings tab at the top and then click on Permissions tab under it.
   4. Then, click on Add Authors to add new authors for your blog. Simply add the email address of the person you wish to invite as an author. They will receive an email with the link to accept the invitation. If they click on the link in that email they will be set as author to your blog. For example: Check the blog: http://blogforthatsblog.blogspot.com In this blog the post “Create a free collaborative blog with the help of blogger” is posted by Maneesh and the post “Steps to create a free blog in Blogger.com:” is posted by Thatsblog.
2. Open invite: In this type of collaborative blog anyone can join and start posting. An example of this type of blog is: dailykos.com The main disadvantage of this type of blog is that you can get irrelevant posts in your blog.

A blawg is a frequently-updated website dealing with legal issues, or the issues of people in the legal profession, or both. Many attorneys, law professors, law students, and law libraries have set up blawgs in recent years. It is a convenient way to quickly disseminate information without filling up everyone’s email box.

Podcasting is the method of releasing digital media files(audio or video) over the Internet using RSS feed for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcast refers to the digital media files, podcaster is the host or the author of a podcast. The term podcast is a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcast.

Audioblogging refers to the use of voice recordings instead of text posts. Both podcasting and audioblogging have gained huge success due the fact that the users don’t have to write bulky posts. They are definitely the future of blogging. Gabcast.com is a nice site for creating podcasts and integrating them to your blogs.

This question was asked by a friend who recently started a blog. She read my post “Getting paid from your blog” and had implemented the top and the bottom leaderboard ads. Now, she wanted to add the ads in the sidebar. To answer this:

Paste the AdSense code after the code:

<!– Begin #sidebar –>
<div id=”sidebar”><div id=”sidebar2″>
Put your Adsense code here

You can read the complete article over here: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42291

I have added the wide skyscraper ad in my test blog: http://blogforthatsblog.blogspot.com