I can’t decide anymore. There are so many places to blog now. Varying feature sets keep me from fully locking into one, but I realize that it is pretty hard to follow a blog that keeps moving.
Features
Full featured in hosted version
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themeable
Yes
Yes
Sure…
Color?
Stylish (my opinion)
meh…
Yes
Close to it
Yes
Markown native in editor
No
well…
Yes
Yes
Footnotes1 (Multimarkdown or Markdown Extra2)
No
No
Yes
No
Ability to publish from outside
Yes
Yes
Can only do this
No…?
These services are obviously all trying to do different things. Tumblr is more social and doesn’t do as well for longform posts. Wordpress is the everything box that doesn’t excel at anything. Scriptogram is as simple as a text file in your Dropbox. Svbtle is new and pretty but missing a couple of key features (for me, anyways).
These two new ones have caught my eye, and if the one gets better looking or the other adds MultiMarkdown, pilchernet may have a new home.