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I want to blog, and I am lazy. The process should be simple, the tools should be powerful.

Edit directly in browser using browser’s “edit-mode”

Writing content for the web sucks. To make it suck less, we’ll create and update content by manipulating HTML directly in browser, using edit-mode.

Submit new content via AJAX to the server

When we’re done editing, the system submits the entire HTML to the server. The server parses the data (we’ll discuss this in the next section) and saves the new post to the database.

Parsing the HTML on the server side

When the server receives the content, it does some magic. Using BeautifulSoup, it parses the title, body, tags(which are saved in the html as special class attributes), and possibly other metadata.

Support for images

There are some options. We can always upload an image to an image hosting provider (like Photobucket, Picasa). If that takes too much time, there should be a way to automatically embed an image (either from disk or from the web). The solution that comes to mind is a special on-demand form, that lets you select an image, crop it, and let it be ...

Zemanta on-demand, everywhere

I'm thinking Ubiquity or just a simple script bookmarklet, have to check what's already out there.