Powerful free blogs from the people behind WordPress. There are a few paid upgrades available for more advanced users with popular blogs.

Free, easy to use and design, hosted blogs from Google.

Billed as "the worlds first fully integrated Blog and Forum solution." Switchboard from Tooum offers free hosted blogs with an integrated forum and comes up with an innovative way of merging forum and blog discussions.

A free trendy looking photoblog service.

"Vox is a free personal blogging service for sharing your experiences with friends and family. .... With powerful privacy controls that give you control over who views your words, photos, videos, and audio, you'll never have to worry about who's reading your blog. .... Better still, Vox gives you seemless access to the popular web services you already use, such as Amazon, YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, and iFilm." There are also loads of good-looking homepage designs to choose from.

Join the Opera Community and get 300mb of space for your blog and photos. Sign up for a free account with the browser people you'll also get access to forums, groups, rating, reviewing "and much more.."

A free photo gallery/blog service, Rare Window is designed so you can update your site (username.rarewindow.com) direct from your mobile phone - allowing for exciting super up-to-date sites. "A great way to make sure you're Rare Window compatible before you create your own site. Just send an MMS/email/PXT from your mobile phone to: test@rarewindow.com"

I like their footer: "Bored? Read our privacy policy. Lonely? Contact us here."