16 Free Tools for Blogging and Blogs

1. Ping-o-Matic – This tool is popular pinging service that helps you to update different search engines that your blog has updated. Actually, this service announces main search engines and services that something on your blog is changed or updated!
2. Pingoat – Another popular and quality pinging service that allows you to notify main search engines and services about your own blog updates. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site more in right time.
3. Creative Commons - Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”
4. Flock – Also popular as the only browser which is oriented to Social Networking. It’s based on Mozilla Firefox engine and supports extensions. Very nice tool for all “social web” freaks!
5. FeedBurner – For sure, most popular tool that adds a variety of features to your RSS feeds. Allowing many options, customizations and optimizations for your blog RSS feeds. Recommended tool (if you already not use it).
6. CopyScape – Defend your site with a plagiarism warning banner! Also, allowing you to search online for plagiarism and your blog duplicates on other web sites and services. Good way to keep yourself updated about what’s happening with your blog articles – and where!
7. Blog Flux - Blogflux is designed to be a central destination for the blogosphere, providing you everything you need to get your blog up and running.
8. Backpack - Share info, schedules, documents, and to-dos across your company, group, or organization. This can be very useful tool for all bloggers. It’s free and very easy to use for everyone, includes Notes, To-Do list support and more!
9. Talk Digger - Talk Digger is the way to find conversations emerging on the Web. To find conversations about any subject or website, just enter some text or web site address (URL) in the search box, chose what you are looking for and press the “Search” button.
10. Gabbly – Gabbly is a platform that enables people to instantly connect and collaborate around any content, topic or interest. Allows you to place real-time live chat boxes into your blog posts and contents. Can be very useful tool.
11. Bookmark & Share - Increase traffic to your website andauto-submit all your bookmarks with One Button. Allowing you to place this button on your blog completely for free!
12. Add to Any – Similar to above tool, but it’s little different. Allowing you to place one of two (or both) widgets that allowing you visitor to share or save (bookmark) your pages. Uses nice effects and fast script for showing results fast.
13. TinyURL - Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Automatic auto-shorten service for long URL’s. Can be used anywhere.
14. Odeo – This tool will helps you to record and share online audio materials and podcasts. With many available audio tools and large community.
15. FavIcon Generator – Generates you icons from photos your upload using this service. This tool can be very useful and it’s very easy-to use. Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic and that’s all!
16. Windows Live Writer – This is mine favorite desktop blog post publishing application. It’s created by Microsoft and supports many great features and options that you can use completely for your blog. Plug-ins and all popular blogging services are supported also!

You are completely free to use any of above listed tools. Be sure that you will improve your overall blogging experience with some of these free blogging tools. Enjoy in blogging!