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Thanks for all the suggestions about Python blogging software, people. However, no single package I've seen so far has all the features I'd need - only a couple implemented Trackbacks - and I have a couple of good reasons to write my own. One is a work project, an app with a beautiful backend and middle layer, but horrible presentation. I'd like to become proficient with a good templating system (Kid looks nice) to spice up this and future work projects where I have to write any user interface code. The other reason is that most of my day is spent writing UI-less code, and I could use some practice. Plus, a project like this provides near-immediate postive feedback, so chances are it won't end up in the dustbin.

To re-familiarize myself with the various XML-RPC APIs, I whipped together a quick prototype with Twisted, using SQLObject with Sqlite for storage. SQLObject was a breeze to use, with a nice declarative class structure for defining tables (similar, but less powerful and complex than using peak.storage and peak.model). Twisted is always a joy, and this project will let me check out the new features in 2.0 (paging Radix). As I noted before, Kid looks like the front-runner for a templating system, being simple and Pythonic, without disallowing one from doing more fancy XSLT-ish things.

So that's it. What features would you include in a new blogging tool?