Average person: Tumblr. The easiest way to blog isn't just their tagline, it's also true. Average person who is a little geekier: Posterous. The easiest way to

Average person: Tumblr. The easiest way to blog isn't just their tagline, it's also true. Average person who is a little geekier: Posterous. The easiest way to blog that also has some more anorak-friendly features. Unhealthy interest in politics: WordPress/Typepad/Blogspot, because that's where most of the other politically opinionated people tend to blog. The hosted services, not the ones you install on your own server. That way someone else has to worry about security updates, maintaining performance, etc, and your friend doesn't have to learn anything about servers just to be able to write. Programmer blogs: the latest fashion seems to be using github as a blog (e.g. raganwald) or else using a git-based blogging engine and deploying the blog to heroku (e.g. with toto) http://www.rubyinside.com/deploy-blog-with-toto-and-heroku-2962.html http://www.rubyinside.com/deploy-blog-with-toto-and-heroku-2...