I’m very pleased to say that Blogger has extended it’s end of support of ftp by about 5 weeks to the 1st May 2010

http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/02/migration-deadline-extended-to-may-1.html

It’s good news on some regards (gives us extra time to sort out a viable solution for our clients, before it’s cut completely)

However, based on the increasingly slow service of publishing photos, videos, and even plain text blogs, changing to a self-hosted system like WordPress, does seem to be the most appropriate option for most of our clients.