I have been blogging for some years now. Started with the old Blogger in 2003 and then moved onto Movable Type with the help of a friend and then moved to WordPress.org, the open source installation.
After the hiatus in blogging I came back to check out the various options that are available, especially the hosted ones. And lo and behold, I found WordPress.com. A freee service from Automatic which provides you with all the basic features that a blogging platform needed. The best part was the innovation that can be seen every week/month here. That really changed everything. Now WordPress.com has turned 2 and I wish them a very happy birthday and a job well done.
With big blogging stars like Om Malik, Scobleizer, and media publishers like the Ny Times, About.com and even Yahoo use this platform. If you are thinking of blogging or moving to a new platform think no further than WordPress.com.