Believe it or not, if you haven’t started blogging, you are not alone! Many people get by just fine on Facebook and email, and see no use in blogging. But if you do want to start and find the idea intimidating, here’s a short piece on how to pick.

The major 2 players in the blogging world are WordPress.com and Blogger.com. I no longer use wordpress.com or blogger.com – but for my blogs – like this one – and even some websites I use wordpress.org (self hosted) exclusively.

I love wordpress.org (self-hosted) both for blogging and for content management. For a beginner, though, I’d not recommend these 2 major players. Why? It’s not because you can’t “get” it – it’s because you probably don’t want to spend too much time trying to figure out all the bells and whistles you honestly don’t need.

Blogspot is THE original “popular” blogging tool and they even invited the word “blog”. But like the .com blogs, these can be plagued with spam blogs and aren’t that portable once you want to move to a self hosted option. You get lots of themes and functionality with both wordpress and blogger.

The fleet-footed startups are Posterous.com and Tumblr.com.

I do have a posterous.com and tumblr.com blog. These are the blogs I tell people to go to when they tell me, “I need a blog as easy as writing an email.” People with no desire to get into blogging customization can use either Tumblr or Posterous and get set up in a snap. Both have an added facet of building a small “community” of readers/users right in the dashboard of your blog.

For some reason Tumblr seems to be spawned some sort of a “f*ckyeah”-prefixed blog meme. And lots of food pictures. I don’t know why.

My Posterous blog galleries looks amazing on my iPad, and I email posts to my Posterous, which I like.

If you’re looking to get blogging within minutes literally – I’d recommend either Tumblr or Posterous.