To me Tumblr seems like a social community to me, rather than something personal. I also like to see people's icons who follow the same blog I do- Tumblr doesn't have that. The idea of "Tumbularity" based on your site activity makes me nervous. (the pressure). It does have some nice layout designs, even ones you can purchase which is interesting- the themes and audio work well. I just wouldn't be using the site they way it was meant to be used. I would not integrate My Twitter and Facebook accounts into it. Also the other Tumblr pages seem to have some graphic photos. The Tumblr community feels like " facebook combined with blogging". I feel the topics I'd want to cover would probably fit better elsewhere.
My experience with Blogger has been good, the integration with my Google email account and other google features is handy. But downside is the individual page layout. The storage is 1 GB compared to Wordpress who has 3GB. I like the gadgets sidebar, the access to Google Analytics, its all convenient. I also like the archive- you can see posts from a couple years ago. The layouts are clean - it seems like they recently added some - but..
Wordpress seems to be the most versatile for a blogger. You can easily import your current blog, it has 3GB of storage for FREE! It also has multi-page capability. I like some of the templates, but Wordpress is also pretty html friendly- I think it would look more like MY website.
I'm not sure I would move my current Blogger site to Wordpress- I do however like the site for the blog site I have been thinking about. I think Wordpress would really work well and might be worth a shot. It seems the most versatile- I probably will not be posting audio, or too many videos, so I think its a good solution for my needs.
After I worte this I found an article on a blog I follow- Its instructions on how to use Wordpress and get your website done in a weekend... cool!
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/06/biz-ladies-get-a-website-in-a-weekend.html
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Good points, I agree that each site has attributes that might meet specific needs. I feel that the Tumblr is edgey and that Wordpress is the driest of the three. While the hipster section on Tumblr is too young for me, I can see the appeal. The test drive was a good way to help flush which would meet your needs. ~Ramona
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