I personally wouldn't use tumblr for a less personal, more professional blog. Tumblr feels like blogging meets something like twitter or facebook, which is nice

I personally wouldn't use tumblr for a less personal, more professional blog. Tumblr feels like blogging meets something like twitter or facebook, which is nice for personal blogs, but a lot of what tumblr offers (the dashboard, non-text posts, reblogging, liking and following) seems kind of wasted on a more professional blog. If you're mostly just posting text and looking for a place to host, I'd probably go with something like wordpress (self-hosted or wordpress.com). Just my two cents. Tumblr arguably does have the benefit of allowing people to find your posts more easily through hash tags, I guess.