I get bored seeing my name on WordPress.com’s home page as its #1 blogger. Why? Cause if I’m #1 it means that really interesting blogs aren’t being done on that service.

Well, today I’m #2. Why? Cause some rich American/space tourist paid a bunch of money to fly to space and is writing about it on her WordPress.com blog.

Congrats to Matt Mullenweg and the other fine folks at Automattic. I love WordPress.com. It’s been a great, fast, and consistent service.

Last night I was showing Chris Coulter just how much spam was being blocked by WordPress and Akismet (Matt’s company does both) and he was amazed. Hundreds of pieces of spam in just a little more than an hour.

What do I want now on WordPress.com? I’d like to have a lot more control of my templates. I’d like to add components from other Web companies. I’d like to add WordPress extensions. And I’d pay a fee for each of these.

Are you thinking of blogging? What service are you going with?