So you want to start your own blog and tell the world exactly what is on your mind, and maybe even make a buck or two while you are at it? I’m going to show you just how you can be blogging in a matter of minutes.

What is a blog you ask? A blog is a type of website ran by an individual or sometimes multiple individuals where they can post regular entries of commentary, or keep an online journal. Blogging is the perfect way to express your opinions about certain subjects to other people on the web, or just tell them whats happening in your life.

I’ll be showing you how you can be blogging in a matter of minutes by making use of the free blogger.com platform.

If you already have a GMail account signing up to the Blogger.com service from Google is a breeze. Blogger.com is a free blogging platform that enables anybody to run their own personal blog for free. It also allows unlimited flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets and more.

Step 1: Go to http://www.blogger.com and click the Create a blog button

Step 2: Enter your name and tick the Acceptance of Terms box and click Continue

Step 3: Give your blog a title and choose a blog address, this will be the domain you type into the browser to get to blog, click Continue

Step 4: Choose a template you like, this will be the look of your blog, click Continue

Step 5: You blog is now created, to start writing your first post click Start Blogging

Step 6: To start writing your first post give your blog post a title and then start writing your heart out about what ever you would like. After writing your first blog post simply click Publish Post and your post will appear on your site for everybody to read.

See how simple it is to start your own blog? Keep coming back as I will be doing some more articles soon on blogging, including how to get more readers to your blog and setting up your first advertisement to earn money from your blog.

If you have any questions regarding starting your own blog feel free to leave a comment and I will reply swiftly.

February has been a extremely good month for iGeek, seeing visitors more than double during this month. I would like to thank all the loyal iGeek readers and urge you to further spread the word about iGeek.

February I started to promote iGeek more aggressively using social media and payed more attention to my writing style to help improve my page ranks. This all has paid off very well and the proof is in the stats.

Here is a list of the top visited blog posts for February 2010:

1. JR Show Dem (Make the circle bigger) video
2. Disable Google Buzz mail notifications
3. Straatligkinders Kaptein span die seile video
4. Introducing the 2010 Stormers Vodacom babes
5. The Nerdies 2010 turning into mudslinging competition
6. How to mirror Wikipedia
7. HTC’s Desire to take on Google Nexus One
8. G-Connect Giveaway
9. Got my HTC Hero
10. Web Africa’s new pricing a disappointment

Be sure to check back here often for the latest in Technology and some entertainment news straight from Cape Town. You can also follow me on twitter of join the Facebook fanpage to stay up to date on the latest articles.

Thanks for everybody’s continued support.

Most of you by now know about my latest project TweSMS that allows you to receive twitter direct messages and mention to your phone by means of SMS messaging.

In an effort to move forward with the project there is some decisions I need to make and I would like to have your feedback on the matter. It was recently pointed out the TweSMS is a really great service but the question remains would you pay for a service like this? Some users has mixed feelings over this and one pointed out that it’s a case of I like it, but can live without it if I have to pay for it.

Now I would like you to give me your opinion on the matter, would you pay for the TweSMS service or would you still use it if it was free but supported by advertisement SMS messages every now and then?

I have been putting off the idea of creating a Facebook fan page for iGeek up until recently when I realised just how important it can be for a brand to have a social presence.

Great news it that you can now join the iGeek Facebook fan page and get more social with us. I will be running some future competitions that will be aimed at Facebook fans so to get in on the action join now to avoid disappointment.

Also if you are more interested in twitter then why not follow me on twitter, or alternatively you can subscribe to the iGeek RSS feed.

What are you waiting for, its time to get more social with iGeek.

So Foursquare is not your thing? Maybe you will like its almost identical counterpart Gowalla. Good news is that Gowalla is now available as a beta for Android devices.

What is Gowalla you ask? It’s a location aware social networking platform that lets you share where you currently are and the activities you are currently doing with your friends. Almost exactly like Foursquare, Gowalla lets you check into places and earn stamps on your virtual passport as you go along.

Gowalla is currently gaining more and more popularity to its counterpart Foursquare due to the manner in how it lets users check in to places, share locations, experiences, and pick up stamps for their virtual passport.

If you would like to help test out Gowalla’s beta Android App head on over to http://static.gowalla.com/gowalla-android-20100212.apk from your Android phone or alternatively if you have a barcode reader installed just scan the barcode below.

With the launch of Google Buzz came new ways of sharing information on the web. Just in the first view days of Google Buzz’s launch it already served millions of Buzz messages. And what better way to get your blog posts out there than to add a Buzz This button to your posts or display your Google Buzz timeline.

Here is three Google Buzz WordPress plugins you can use on your blog.

Google Buzz This button

Add a Buzz This button to your posts.

Google Buzz Feed

The Google Buzz plugin (widget ready) allows you to retrive latest feeds from your Google Buzz service. It has some advanced options like caching.

WP Google-Buzz

Another Buzz This plugin, this time you have some more options than with the Google Buzz This Button.

Ever since I started using Google Buzz the first thing that annoyed me was the fact that I got all my Google Buzz message via email also, that is when I wrote a article about how to disable mail notifications for Google Buzz messages.

Now a few people have mailed me asking if there is a way to disable Google Buzz completely, good news is you can do it and its real easy.

To disable or turn off you Google Buzz account follow the steps below:

1. Log into your Gmail account
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
3. There should be a small link that says “Turn off buzz“
4. Click “Turn off buzz” and your Google Buzz account should be turned off.

Google buzz is Google’s latest attempt to snatch the social networking crowds away from the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Google Buzz is alright, nothing wow about it for me just one thing that really irritates me about it is the fact that it sends mail to your Gmail account for all your Buzz messages.

After some searching I found a way to disable these notifications.

1. In your Gmail account go to your inbox tab.
2. Locate and click the Create Filter link next to the Search The Web button.
3. Enter your Gmail email address in the “To” field
4. Enter “label:buzz” into the “has the words” field
5. Click Next Step and ignore the warning message.
6. Select “Skip the inbox” and “Mark as read”
7. Apply a label like “Buzz Notifications”
8. Press “Create Filter” and you should not receive buzz messages as Emails anymore

I did the above on my Gmail account and do not receive any Google Buzz messages as emails anymore. Hope this helps you!

Google Buzz is Google’s latest stab at having a slice of the Social Networking pie on the Internet. Google just introduced Google Buzz to the world and some of you that makes use of GMail may already have the feature activated.

If you are one of the many unlucky not to have the Google Buzz service active you can read more about it here or check out the video below.

Blogging is the ultimate form of expressing yourself on the Internet and getting your opinion out there, yet there is still a vast amount of people without access to Internet.

CTWUG, Cape Town Wireless User Group, is a free city wide wireless network spanning across the greater Cape Town area. CTWUG offers their users access to all kinds of services for free every month like Gaming servers, VOIP, WugTube a video sharing site like YouTube and now blogging.

Some may not see this as a big deal, but I do. Currently the CTWUG network has over 130 active members where a lot of them currently does not have access to the Internet. A year or so back we started moving all our public web services over to the local network allowing these people without Internet to be able to make use of these services via local wireless traffic, this included our main website and forums, wiki, IRC chat servers as well as our image gallery.

Now the latest addition to the CTWUG website is the blog section. Users with or without Internet access are now able to write to their hearts content about any topic they would like and make it viewable to the Internet. The blogs are currently aggregated with MyScoop and Afrigator so chances are good that other people will notice it and read it. I am all for social networking and I see blogging as the seed that started social networking, thus I always urge people to start blogging if they can and have the time.

I would like to welcome all the new CTWUG bloggers and would like to urge everybody to start blogging be it about the latest games, series, gadgets or even personal experiences. Anybody can blog about anything they like or dislike.