Blogging Pubbitch

All the coolest boys on the block are writing their own blogging tools, and since I need a decent project for the series of magazine articles I'm writing about PHP, now seems like the ideal time to get cracking on my own. The question is, what do I want to be able to do?

Well, obviously, entering text should be a doddle, so it'd be handy if I could feed it text files in a directory in a variety of formats (you know, plain text, HTML and also email) as well as storing data in a more traditional database. Naturally, having a simple textarea to enter data should also be supported, perhaps using some sort of wiki format so that you don't need to be a ninja web-developer in order to get your blog looking nice. Categories should also be easy to do, and it goes without saying that output should be in a variety of formats.

To reduce server load, it would be great if the blog supported static rendering of files. And it goes without saying that it'd be great to support pingback, trackback and all the other bells and whistles that are coming to the fore.

Oh, and comments. And some means of easily handling your blogroll. And, naturally, it should all be under some sort of Open Source license.

Anything I've forgotten?

Update: After a couple of hours of coding, the raw framework is in place, and I can publish text based blog entries. Obviously, not supporting skinning atm, and it doesn't have a nice calendar, but it's a start.