Blogging: Hosts - Software - Tools - SEs

Blog Hosts
Blogger.Com
Free Hosted Blogs owned by google. Very flexible with great features. An example of a Blogger blog is packagingblog.blogspot.com

Bloglines
Free Hosted Blogs and RSS Reader. An example of a Bloglines blog is: www.bloglines.com/blog/PackagingBlog

B2evolution

Blog Search Engines
blogdex
blogsearchengine

blogarama
bloglines
blogrunner
blogsearchengine
bloogz
eatonweb
globeofblogs
search4blogs

Blog Sites Directory
Hot Blog Sites Directory

Blog Top List
tomstopsites

Blog Traffic Stats
Feed Burner
Full Traffic Stats and Distributes Blog Feed with free promotional tools.

Blog Designs
Blog Skins Cool Skins
Blog Designs

Polls for Blogs
Free Polls
Poll Host
Brave Net
Web Poll Central

Blog Training
Learning Blogger
Free Ebook

A lot of blog Search Engines (SEs) don't accept submissions for example www.technorati.com but they will spider and add it. You want to be listed there! I had a personal blog there and got tons of hits from their site.