It's encouraging to hear from so many people who'd like to start their own weblogs. To answer your questions, here are some resources:
Free blog hosting
Paid hosting
(For those who want to run advanced content management systems)
Check out web host reviews or directories such as Tophosts before making your decision.
Background info on weblogs
Weblogs: A history and perspective
Books on blogging
We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (by the creators of Blogger)
Essential Blogging (by the creators of Movable Type and Blosxom)
The Weblog Handbook
Feel free to contribute more information by posting a comment.
Hmm, why not introduce some local webhosting since I suppose most of those people whom are interested in blogging would be locals, especially after featuring it in ComputerTimes :-)
Good point. Let me get back to you on that ... after I clear all my work :-)
But I don't recommend most local web hosts because there isn't much choice in Singapore and the service and prices aren't competitive enough. I myself host with www.veoweb.net which you can check out in the meantime.
Hmm, Veoweb is a US company? They charge in US dollars? Actually, there's www.intermedia.com.sg but there are no details. However, you can email them and ask for quotations
On hindsight, forget I ever recommended Veoweb. They screwed up the server many times and lost my domain name. I'm never hosting with them again.