This is my first experience using any blogging software so I figured I’d throw up some impressions I have of Blogger.
FTP/SFTP Support
I was blown away by the support for FTP/SFTP. I really wasn’t expecting to be able to have my blog posted anywhere but on Blogger’s servers. I was more blown away by the fact that it actually works. The interface for setting up directories is a little clunky and error reporting in the publishing tool lacks user friendly error reporting (I ran into a problem where uploading the archive directory was failing after I created my first post).
Template Support
You’re given a fairly limited set of templates to choose from when you create your blog (of course, they could have made you create the whole template on your own). However, once your blog is created you can edit the raw HTML of the template to make it look however you want. This is especially important if you’re using the FTP/SFTP functionality to integrate your blog into an existing site’s look and feel.
Syndication Support
A quick flip of a switch and Blogger will enable syndication for your blog using Atom. This is great because you get it for free, although it would be nice if they offered to do RSS as well (though it’s understandable given Blogger is run by Google now and Google’s pushing Atom hard).
Editing Interface
The interface for adding postings is really nice and easy to use. A whizzy rich-text editor with spell checking and image upload capability (although I haven’t tested the image upload yet). Flickr even appears to have a way to add a picture to your account and then blog that picture.
Blog Management
There’s lots of knobs you can twist tweak your blog. Additionally you can add other Blogger members to your blog, allowing them to edit, post and delete blog postings. Once you create your account on Blogger, you have an interface to add and maintain multiple blogs, making it easy to set up different blogs for different topics.
In all, I’m very pleased with Blogger.