The addition of FTP to the beta means that account migration will soon (like Really Really Soon) be available to all Blogger users -- it's currently just enabled for blogspot users.Let's see what's next! (Really really soon would tend to suggest hours to me in terms of a timescale....)
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Does Blogger publish a page for each label as well as each archive period? How does it combine them?
On a related note, Blogger Beta supports bulk labelling of posts - just the thing for retro-fitting tags to your blog.
Archives are published as normal.
Like you I was surprised that labels made it into FTP support as well. I figured they would keep that blogspot only.
A comment on the post..although the buzz article doesn't mention compulsory don't think it won't be (at least at some point). How they will do it is of course unknown, but eventually everyone will be assimilated. And the word on the street is that really really soon in Bloggerspeak means a timescale based on weeks. But I suppose we shall see.