As I've already said quite clearly already, I will not recommend either. They're both pretty awful. And I've heard that other hosted blogs are more of the same-- overloaded servers, slow load times, limited functionality, limited templating changes if any, most important
SEO functionality stripped out, etc etc etc.
If you're going to make the effort, why screw around with problematic half-arsed solutions? Hosting is cheap these days, and so are domain names.