For the feint of heart or technologically less-inclined you can get a host such as dreamhost that has one-click installs to get you up and blogging with literally the push of a button. I’m contemplating moving on over there as the features seem unbeatable and the host is run and owned entirely by its employees which seem to have been making an honest effort to improve there service quality and avoid, well as much as possible, overselling space on there servers.
On a seperate note these blogs are good reads….
http://www.steve-olson.com — no idea how I came across this one but he has some very original ideas, a few of which but not all appeal to me.
http://www.blogmaverick.com — .Com billionaire Marc Cuban’s blog. His topic are wide ranging but he always seems to be one step ahead of the main stream of just about any business topic, be it marketing, advertising, sales, or technology. This ability to be ahead of the competition is likely what made him the majority of his fortune.