Top 9 Things I Want In a Blog Engine
garrickvanburen.com/archive/top-9-things-i-want-in-a-blog-engine
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
self-hosted easily template-able easily customizable supports email-to-post supports XML-RPC supports RSS output internal search engine an writing UI encouraging writing 200+ words at a time an reading UI encouraging reading 2+ essays at a time
Update 11 Oct 2010 Add these to the list;
memorable, human-readable URL constructs doesnt bias how or what I publish