I still don't get the question? You are looking for blogging tutorials? You wanna learn how to blog or how to set up a blog? Because it's actually just downloading opensource blogging software and uploading it to your server, and fill in the right config file
Finally finding about some of the bots that are flooding the users online - bytespider apparently is a huge offender here - ignores robots.txt and comes in from a ton of different IPs
Ghan has said he has fixed this. Monovertex please confirm this fix. This was only a problem with people that had signatures in the upper levels like not the special members but the respected members.