Microsoft launched their free weblogging system today, joining the likes of typepad (from the movabletype folks), livejournal, the original blogger (now owned by google) and others with a commercial blogging service. This will undoubtable further raise public awareness of the whole blogging phenomenon. Their system’s not half bad on first look either – it seems like it has a decent feature set, including photo galleries, mobile phone integration, buddy lists, music lists and more. It’s hard to say how well it all works though since it requires an MS passport which I dont have and dont want, and since it seems to be overwhelmed with traffic on its first day. Worth keeping an eye on as each of the big players adjust their offerings.