WordPress moves, #1: The Decision

Now that I've decided to move to WordPress as my main blog platform, I thought I might as well document the steps involved.

By "main blog platform" I mean the one which I would like to contain all of my blogged content, the one with the permalinks and consequently the one to which I will map my domain, josschuurmans.com.

(Well, I reserve the right to consider using josschuurmans.org or josschuurmans.net instead or in parallel)

Up until now, my "main blog platform" has been Typepad. I have simultaneously experimented with Blogger, WordPress.com, Blogsome, Posterous and Tumblr (and perhaps some others).

My main drivers for moving to WordPress include:

• It’s free as in “speech”;
• It’s free as in “beer”;
• WP the company has recently transferred the WP brand name to WP the foundation;
• I can host it myself (with a little help from my friends);
• It has a huge user and developer base;
• Design is highly customizable.

So, what's move #1? The decision :-)