Tim Bray explains why he would like to see a basic blog tool that was hacked in Java patched up:

Henry Story has been struggling mightily to turn Bloged from a weekend hack into a real blogging tool, because near as I can tell, there isn’t such a thing that’s in Java and works about the same everywhere

Well, it's not in Java, but it does work about the same everywhere - the BottomLine posting tool that comes with BottomFeeder. It's written in VW Smalltalk, so it's instantly portable to a very wide array of platforms. WYSIWYG editing, of course.

A side note - since it's not in Java, I haven't had to "struggle mightily". Too bad for Henry, I suppose...

And here's a screen shot