[ via Roberto ]

EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is offering free weblogs for all their students and staff members. The blogs do not have all the features you might expect from today's blogging software (trackbacks for example), and they all look exactly the same, but still this is a great move by the renowned Federal Institute of Technology. The lack of features might be due to the fact that they run a self-made blogging software ( at least "<generator>polyblog</generator>" suggests this), so they might very well offer more features soon.
I guess we can expect a lot of interesting content flowing out of that school, the only problem I see is that you don't have any kind of overview what's going on those blogs, there isn't even a list of all the blogs. Some advanced aggregator portal like the soon-to-be-finished Portalog would certainly add a lot to their infrastructure and its potential impact.
Admitting the Suisse Romande being an weblog aggregation cluster, this all fits together pretty well. :)