Best Platform to start out with

[walrus]

I have both BO and BA but every one of my blogs is a WP blog.

I use BO for my hand written blogs so that when I'm in a creative mood I can write numerous posts and schedule them to be posted.

Obviously, I use BA to handle RSS Feeds.

I stay with the WP platform because of a couple of factors:
tons of available templates
tons of available plug-ins
familiarity
lots of on-line help