Cool stuff for Publishing

Frankly, I think Blogs are simply the new self-publishing craze, a la personal web pages in the first place. However, the cool factor is that so many companies are making it so easy and free. They are providing the average user (read: early adopter/influence) with incredibly powerful applications that are dead simple to use.
I set up my domain with Yahoo Domains (domains.yahoo.com). Pretty simple though something like $20/month.
Downloaded wsftp from CNET downloads (download.com) to be able to transfer files.
This was to create the web site.
To set up this blog, I went to Blogger.com. Literally, within 30 minutes, I had it set up. Amazing.
I noticed they were promoting Google's Ad Sense, where you place ads on your site and get a chance to take a rev share on the ads that Google serves on your site. I applied online and got my approval in a few hours. Then filled in the tax return info ONLINE and "signed" the document. That night, fiddled with the code they provide and templates for ads, and, again, in less than 30 minutes, copy and pasted ad calls on my site. Instantly I had some ads on the site--"house" ads talking about Tsunami charities. The next morning-ads were contextual-talking about Bikes. Very impressive. To date I've made about a buck :-)
Tonight I wanted to know how to syndicate the blog--allow other people to read by having my ramblings broadcast to their RSS reader (usually My! Yahoo). Blogger doesn't offer that for free, but they referred me to Feedburner.com.
Again, amazing. FOR FREE, in less than 30 minutes, I know have the ability to let others grab my "content" and read it as soon as I update it. Incredible.