I love my blog, I host it in a private place, just as my own personal journal. Firefox has a deepest sender extension that you can just click on and post from anywhere in firefox.

blogger and live journal have a large part of the blogger market. Not only do they allow you to have other blogs, they give you a network of bloggers to interact with. It might be hard to over come that.

You also have to keep in mind that most hosting services offer Fantastico, Autoinstaller etc., that have wordpress, automation is tuff competition.