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Dare mentioned a lack of HttpCompression support from blog tools. Traditionally, I think this burden has fallen on the system administrator and not software tool maker. However, with ASP.NET/IIS this can be a quick fix.

You do have a couple of choices:

1. The first obvious choice would be to turn on IIS 6.0 compression, which from all most accounts seems to function quite well. However, this of course requires you be using IIS 6.0 (see .NET Guy for tips on getting this started)
2. Next, you could purchase a third party product (such as PipeBoost or XCache)
3. Finally, for relatively simple application (like .Text and dasBlog) you could enable HttpCompression with a simple HttpModule.

As long as you are not using Server.Transfer, you should be able to use Ben Lowery's HttpCompression Module.

I have had good success with it in the past, but it (as with any non-IIS solution) does not handle Server.Transfer well. At worse, you could probably use it for your RSS requests and you would probably take care of 70% of your bandwidth.