i'm finding typepad harder & harder to love lately. the web-based UI seems like it's always slow, the photo uploading for sam's blog is about 2 years behind anyone else, and it costs money every month to run as well. starting to think about moving, but it's a little stickier than i want, to be honest. i've got about 3 years of posts in typepad now, not to mention nearly a year and a half of videos & pictures of the little guy. but it's still just hard to stay on typepad. i'm taking a bit of time off next week; think i'm going to do the evaluation. any ideas? (and if you've got suggestions, would really like suggestions on how to move the mass of content that i've got, too.)

basic requirements, though, are this:

- want to be able to run my own blog, plus sam's blog
- want to have a feature-rich, easy to use + gallery-ize picture capability -- with easy integration to iphoto
- want to make it as easy as possible to put up video from our DV camera -- videoegg currently is the easiest to do importing; it also has integration with typepad

and free would be nice. :-)

thoughts?