As I look around at the many weblogs out there and how quickly they are evolving, I see how I'm falling behind in integrating the latest and greatest (and hopefully, useful) features.  Let me make a list of features I'd love to incorporate:

1. a blogroll that is up-to-date with the sources I read
2. a Trackback or Pingback mechanism to allow comments pointing to my blog to be referenced on my blog -- an emerging solution to the problem of how to facilitate thread-like conversations in the blog world, without having all the conversation have to happen right in the blog that kicks off a topic
3. integrated RSS aggregation/HTML scraping with blog posting integrated with Manila that works well.  I didn't get Radio to publish my Manila weblog newsitems last time I tried -- maybe I am just dense or did not try hard enough or it wasn't going to work.  Maybe it will work now.
4. better ways to write stuff in my other programs (Microsoft Word and Ecco) and hit a button to publish it to my blog.
5. Manila-Groove integration.  Jon Udell reports on Radio-Groove integration.
6. [more coming throughout the day]

I hope to get to implementing some of the features soon....In the meantime, I've decided to write "notelets" sometime that may be a big telegraphic and cryptic but which are still put out there for others to see.  Often, I've not had the energy to write blurbs about why I reference a given link, keeping me from referring to interesting materials at all.  Now I say, just put it out there -- and the context of the items may (or may not) help my readers make sense of why I'm linking to what I'm linking.  At the least the link won't just sit in Ecco....