There are some movements in Blackhatworld competition, now appeared some blog posts, so now it is a good time to get a closer look to the list of free hosts for blogs.
Everybody knows Blogger or Wordpress, and what are the other options ?
The most popular besides two are:

http://www.livejournal.com/

http://www.myspace.com/

http://360.yahoo.com/

http://spaces.msn.com/

I would like to add also
http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/journal/
and
http://www.typepad.com/pricing/
the last one is unfortunately paid service that starts from $4.95 per month
but one of the best in its class.

The huge list of gree services you can find
here
it is about one years old, but still valid.

Thinking back about our competition, there are two new blogs high in the ranks
from
http://grazr.com

http://vox.com

there is also a role of backlinks, but looks like these two sities get enough authority to rank fast.
We will se how long the posts remain positions, so far -
our brick in the BlackHatWorld wall.