Overview of the Weblog Tools Market

In her elise.com: On the Job blog from August 6, 2004, Elise Bauer compiled a comprehensive overview of the weblog tools market. She has managed to inventory the tools with links, identify the market share and use index, and shine the light on this emerging business sector. If you want to quickly get up to speed with weblogging, Elise's blog from August 6th is a perfect resource.

For example, here are some of the links to weblog tools mentioned in her article:

Hosted Blog Services
Free:
Blogger.com
Blogdrive
Fee:
Typepad

Hosted Blog Communities
Live Journal
AOL Journals
DiaryLand
Xanga
AlwaysOn Network

Blog Software
Fee:
Movable Type
Expression Engine
Radio Userland
Open source and free:
Wordpress
b2evolution
Drupal
Greymatter
Textpattern
Blosxom
Nucleuscms
Roller Weblogger
Pivot

Blog Indices and Search Resources
Technorati
Feedster
Blogdex
Blogpulse
Blogwise
Blogstreet

Websites Focused on Blog Market Sizing
Blogcount
bsentinel
BlogCensus

If you read through the posted comments, people have also built on what Elise has listed.
Definitely worth a read.