“Blogs on the Guardian website: Britain's liveliest network of blogs offers a quick fire mix of news and opinion. From national and international news (Newsblog) to the arts (Culture Vulture), and video gaming (Gamesblog) to small business management (Business Insight), guardian.co.uk/blogs are our unique and effective means of stimulating debate and linking to the best of the web.”

Neil McIntosh
Assistant editor, guardian.co.uk

The Guardian website has pioneered the use of blogs (we've been running them since 2001) and taken a lead in encouraging readers to set up their own. In that time we've found that blogs help make for a different kind of journalism. Editors play less of a role, as blog posts are not commissioned or edited in the same way as on other parts of guardian.co.uk. That helps make sure one of the blog's greatest strengths - the power of the individual's voice - shines through.

NEW: March 2006
Comment is free is the first collective comment blog by a British newspaper website. It incorporates all the regular Guardian and Observer main commentators, many blogging for the first time, who will be joined by a host of outside contributors - politicians, actors, scientists, activists and of course existing bloggers. The aim is to host an open-ended space for debate, dispute, argument and agreement and to invite users to comment on everything they read.

newsblog is put together by the news team and augmented by dispatches from Guardian journalists around the world. Newsblog makes a point of featuring other people's sites, an eclectic range of links around the web and – now – lively debate between readers and other contributors.

The Guardian website blog for everything that is the arts, including music, theatre and books. Comment and debate surrounding subjects such as who should win the Mercury Music Prize generate a passionate, and some might say obsessive, level of response from readers.

Enjoy playing games on your computer, console or mobile phone? Ever felt games magazines weren't for you? Then guardian.co.uk's gamesblog is the place to go. Put together by games writers from the Guardian's technology section Gamesblog takes an informed, intelligent and - above all - entertaining look at the games world

We have two blogs in the technology sector.

1. technologyblog. From the team that produces the TechnologyGuardian section every Thursday, technologyblog has become a firm favourite with readers. Users check in for the latest internet and technology news - including live posting from the industry's biggest shows and conferences - and knowledgeable discussion about the latest trends.

2. askjack. PC got a bug? Not sure which gadget you should get next? You should askjack. This is the online incarnation of the popular newspaper column where computer editor Jack Schofield answers your computer and tech troubles

Media Monkey's chatty sibling - organgrinder has comment from the Guardian's media contributors, interviews with leading media figures, and lively chat from its knowledgeable audience.

The blogging home of EducationGuardian. A crack team of experts - the likes of Donald MacLeod, Will Woodward, Rebecca Smithers, John Crace and Matthew Taylor pass on their analysis, asides and their personal takes on events. Some contributions will be controversial, some will be glib, but the editors say "we hope that you contribute back to us, letting us know how you feel about what we cover and how we say it".

The sportblog covers all sports, from atheltics to footbal, rugby to golf, our contributors will be providing non-stop comment, anaylsis and plenty of humour from the world of sport. COntributors include our own Sean Ingle, Steve Cram, David Pleat and Thomas Castaignede to name just a few