The Wall Street Journal Online has an article about introduction to blogging and comparison of three popular free blog creation services: Google’s Blogger, Microsoft’s MSN Space and Yahoo’s Yahoo 360 service.

While using these three sites, we paid careful attention to how each blog-creating service handled four basic tasks: publishing text entries, or “posting” as it is called in blog land; adding photos; publishing links to other Web pages on our blogs; and providing privacy (if desired) online. We also took note of the overall style and formatting options provided on each site.

After reading the article, seems like the authors Katie Boehret and Walter S. Mossberg indeed are newbies to the whole blogging thing, so it might pose a relatively fair reviews of them.

In a quick summary, MSN Spaces do a pretty good job to convert blogging into a fun process, except the slideshow feature which works on Internet Explorer only. On the other hand, Blogger while powerful, needs some technical learning curve to get use to it. Yahoo 360 is still in beta, needs to pull in other Yahoo services to operate, and lack of standard blogging features like commenting.

One thing they probably forget to mention is that Google’s Blogger allows people to host the blog on their own web server, the important feature that is not available on both MSN Spaces and Yahoo 360, I believe. Another thing is multiple authors support.

Read the full review article at The Wall Street Journal Online.