Today, Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type announced a hosting service named TypePad. It will use MT as it's weblogging software. This really sounds great. Blogger was essentially the only choice for those without a server who wanted to set up a weblog up until this point. Now Blogger has competition from Movable Type, which is, in my opinion, a much more advanced piece of software. Then again, Blogger now has google's finances behind it and as Brent warns, hosting can be difficult and can cause problems for a company.
Despite that, I'm very interested in TypePad and optimistic for its future development.