Apparently, Google is actually working on making Blogger better. Biz Stone documents the major changes in the improved Blogger, most of which will be ho-hum to prosumer webloggers. Still, this raises the LCD for web authoring.
Someone should do a study of hosted weblogging services. There are probably about three to three and a half eras: EditThisPage, Blogger/Pitas/Manila, Radio Userland / MovableType / Trellix, TypePad and Blogger Redux.
Hmmmm, needs more thought.