If you go to Ning.com, you'll find a great free resource that you can use to put together not just a site, but a whole community. You can set up not just your own blog, but get your friends to log in and create their own blogs within you community. Here are just 2 examples which I set up this morning - it's very easy to do:
http://welshcobs.ning.com/
http://multiplestreamsofincome.ning.com/
JJ.
http://welshcobs.ning.com/
http://multiplestreamsofincome.ning.com/
JJ.