From your dashboard, go to “System Options” » “Blogging Options” » “Writing”.

In this area you will be setting up your various “writing” options.

In the first section you’ll decide:

1. The size of your “post box” (the box where you actually write your posts and blog pages)
2. Formatting options, converting emoticons and correcting invalidly nested coding
3. Your default “category” for your post articles
4. Your default “category” for links

All these options can remain as they are.

Post via Email:

On occasion you may be on the road or at a conference and while you have a quick second, you want to post something on your site.  The email option will allow you to do that.  You’ll need all the server information to input, and a “private” email address to use just for posting.

Update Services:

This area contains all the RSS Directories that the service will automatically notify whenever you hit the “publish” button.  (These are unlike the Social Bookmarking sites as you don’t need an account).

The list is already populated for you, but should you happen to delete it, you can just copy this list and paste it into that area:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://www.a2b.cc
http://api.feedster.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://www.bitacoles.net
http://blogbot.dk
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com
http://www.blogpeople.net
http://www.blogroots.com
http://www.blogshares.com
http://www.blogsnow.com
http://blog.goo.ne.jp
http://bulkfeeds.net
http://coreblog.org
http://www.lasermemory.com
http://mod-pubsub.org
http://www.mod-pubsub.org
http://www.newsisfree.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com
http://ping.rootblog.com
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://www.popdex.com
http://rcs.datashed.net
http://rpc.weblogs.com
http://www.snipsnap.org
http://www.topicexchange.com
http://www.weblogues.com
xping.pubsub.com
xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php