Why do people read blogs? Well there are a few different reasons, the number one being that they get some value from reading your blog. If this is the case, then pray tell how does reading a log add value to your blog? Before reading logs or gather statistics first figure out why you are gathering these statistics, how exactly are they going to help you produce better content that adds more value to lives of your consumers. Then and only then begin reading or looking at logs, because logs and statistics have a bad way of manipulating your ego and instead of being an activity of adding value to the lives of your consumers it becomes an ego-stroking activity at which point you will lose users. There are obviously exceptions to this, if you're Brad Pitt or George Clooney, then your blogging can be an ego stroking activity, bar that your blog is about adding value to your consumers... Forget that and they will leave and you will no longer have any readers.

If I write something, I would like for it to be profound and well-written. I find it's difficult to do so on a web text area. I find having a rich text editor is absolutely necessary compared to a simple text area or even a WYSIWGY editor like tinyMCE. A good platform client is not only more powerful, but does more for you in terms of spell checking, formatting, and so on. It's also a lot easier to focus your thoughts in a word processor. For all of these reasons, I think that there needs to be in general greater integration between text areas in web browsers and word processors. Perhaps improving the areas with rich text editors might be a first step. But tinyMCE already does that to some extent.

There needs to be something quite a bit more powerful. Something like a rich text component that can use any given text editors, much like Microsoft's OLE object. But such an area should support open source projects such as Abi Word and OpenOffice.org. Further full-screen and detachment should be an option so that you can detach a text area from a web browser, edit it in an a word processor and send the content back to the browser on exiting the word processor. Further, there should be strict HTML editing modes in most word browsers. Considering how common and important HTML is today, it's a strange wonder that word processors often have very sloppy support for HTML specifications. Further, being able to upload pictures quickly and efficiently is also necessary and this is a feature that is solidly lacking from a lot of offline bloging clients. The clients which implement it implement it often as an FTP service instead of some sort of proper specification. In the end blogging APIs themselves should support binary uploading perhaps using a specification like MIME or some other simple ASCII to Binary encoding scheme.