Performancing provides high quality, free authoring and analysis tools for bloggers– a nice blogging plugin for Firefox and Performancing Metrics, free real-time blog statistics including RSS feed support.   The blogging plugin provides blogging functionality integrated with the browser like Flock, but without requiring you to download a new browser.  Performancing Metrics is similar to Google Analytics but is simpler and easier to use. 

Also, compared with Google, Performancing is less likely to be able to work against publishers interests via the clickstreams they harvest.