If you go to Blogger, then you'll see that they require a log in that is Google based. Blogger is, after all, a Google product.
If you are currently using or have a gmail account, then you can sign in through that account (email and password) and start setting up your blog.
Blogger Set Up with an Eamil Other Than Gmail
Some of you may prefer to use your usual email address and sign in to get to your blog. If so, then you can sign up for a Google account using your Hotmail, Yahoo or other email adress and password by going to the following sign up form for a Google account and putting in your usual sign up information.
Google Account Sign Up
Feel Free to Try Gmail - It's Free and a Nice Email Platform
You can also sign up for a free Gmail account which is well integrated with Blogger and the tools, since they all fall under the G company name. This can be used directly for sign in at the blog and, in effect establishes your Google identity or account.
The main benefit with Gmail (besides the tight integration) is that it has a great search function. I have over 10,000 emails (yikes - yes I do). I can use the eamil search and put in a student name or topic or certain keywords and find things from years back.
Email Alerts About Blogger Comments (be sure to set comments on "moderated")
One other note as far as emails and your Blogger account, you can go into settings and put a different email. You might, for example opt to set up the blogger blog with a Gmail account but prefer to be notified about comments on your blog at another email account. You can just plug in where you want your commnet alerts sent.
To set the alert email function to an email other than the one that use to sign in with, go to Settings (to the right of where you press Posts to add a new post on the dashboar). Click on Settings. Another row of topics will appear below including Comments. Click on Comments and go down the page several fields to Comment Moderation. Under Comment Moderation, you will see a field for Email Address. Simply type in the email where you'd like to get notices of comments from friends and fans.
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Comments are moderated. You won't see them live, until I review them (and delete spam). I do check my blogs often though, and I appreciate your thoughts and input.