I’d be wary of it, though, as it seems like most of the pre-packaged blog-hosting deals aren’t a good deal for anything _but_ blogging. They usually have very little storage space included, and/or little bandwidth, or lack other featured I’d want in a hosting plan. The hosting plan I currently have is $9.99 a month with 250meg of space, and 10GB of bandwidth. Plus it’s got an awesome set of control panels for managing the various aspects of the site. Oh, also it’s lightning fast as I think they’re in the same building as Mae-West (major west coast internet backbone). At least, their routing leads me to that belief.

I think that over the next year or so, hosting companies will be finding blogs are so requested, they’ll be putting them as a regular feature in their hosting plans, rather than making special ‘blog’ plans, but for now, you might be able to sucker a lot of newbies into getting $15 a month plans with blogs already ready to go and giving them low-storage-low-bandwidth plans.

Ahhh, even more noise, and even less signal.

Sorry to be the naysayer, but IMHO as blogs popularity have increased their quality has decreased. Or more accurately it is harder and harder to find quality writing. Not the best analogy, but I am reminded of Jurassic Park where the one guys says that scientists were so proud that they *could* make a dinosaur that they didn’t think of whether they *should.*

Sure hope someone builds a site dedicated to cataloging all blogs then (hmmm, Bloogle) because if you think it is hard to find good stuff to read now, wait until ever single AOL user has a blog

</devil’s advocate>

The other issue was that I was migrating from a weblogs.com/Frontier blog and I had to get help from Jason Levine (Q Daily News) to parse my Frontier archives so that MT could import them.

I love blogging. I don’t love managing my blog.