[untraceableblog]

1) Trust. I trust the Tor developers and nodes much more than HideMyAss, which is a single point of failure.

2) Looks like a good suggestion, I'll have to check that out if I ever start a Tor hidden service.

3) The main factors are having control over the HTML, and differentiating the site from just another wordpress blog. Anyone can start a Wordpress blog using Tor, and that wouldn't make a very interesting blog post.

This was done mostly as an excercise and experiment. If the goal were just to publish sensitive articles, I would use a free blogging platform.