How would I start a blog (for free)

[WANSTALL Malcolm]

>> http://wordpress.com/
>> http://www.blogger.com/
>From what I can tell WP offers 50m of storage (but I can't upload tars
or zips 
>or svgs). Blogger offers 1gig! of space (again, only images from what I
can 
>tell) and it sounds like another whole set of login stuff to hassle
with.
>
>Anyone have a favourite, and a reason?
>
>\d

Most (if not all) free blog hosts won't let you upload files (other than
images)...typically files aren't involved in a blog post anyways
(usually just words, images and links). As for a favourite, the two top
free ones, WordPress and Googles Blogger cater for differing audiences:

WordPress is fantastic if you want to do lots of customisation to your
layout and structure (even if you're leaving it hosted on their servers)
and as mentioned you can even host it on your own server if you want to
tinker with it even more (it's a nice blogging engine and easy to play
around with, much easier than TypePad IMO).

Blogger is the best if you just want to get straight in there and write
your thoughts, forget about making it look too personal, just dive
straight in and write away.

In a nutshell, for customisation and personalisation (and the choice of
running it on your own server later, so you can include file upload
etc), WordPress is the go (although its default theme is ugly IMO)
however if you want ease of use and want to get typing ASAP, I'd say go
with Blogger.

Good luck!
-Mal