True, but (and correct me if I'm wrong) if you're using a Wordpress.com blog you have to have a URL of the format yourblog.wordpress.com, right? Whereas if you

True, but (and correct me if I'm wrong) if you're using a Wordpress.com blog you have to have a URL of the format yourblog.wordpress.com, right? Whereas if you want to go to your own domain you need to self-host. But you could set up a domain you own to resolve to a Tumblr blog that's hosted by Tumblr. There's definitely room for both platforms in different scenarios. I run a self-hosted Wordpress blog that's fairly complicated and high-traffic, and that's the right choice for that platform. But I'm probably going to start a more stripped-down personal blog soon and Tumblr seems like the way to go for that.