I would imagine we have more than a few bloggers here. If you have reservations about outing your real-world self, that's not my interest here. I'm only looking for software\hosting preferences.

The biggest two look to be Blogger and WordPress, or at least it seems that way as a surfer. I've looked at both, but not seriously enough to start a blog. Other than Google-hosted v owned, does anyone have strong opinions one way or the other? If you prefer or use something other than the two, by all means, jump in.