Something that I have been thinking about recently is how to make my blog resistant to being dugg or stumbled (obviously I'm being optimistic even thinking about it). I currently have a wordpress.org blog installation and I'm quite happy with it. But here are a few options:

• Pay more money for better PHP hosting
• Move away from wordpress.org installations and move my blog to wordpress.com (losing templating facilities)
• Move to an appengine blog engine (http://bloog.billkatz.com/ comes to mind)
• Build something super cool that can proxy my wordpress blog - yeah rock on

Technologies

I would propose we use:

• vanilla python google-appengine (probably don't need django for this one)
• My http://code.google.com/p/gaetools library for implementing background tasks to sync the site
• integration with either disqus or intensedebate for comments to enable commenting without roundtripping back to the site.

Tasks

Exact tasks to be discussed, but for starters:

• Implement remote caching modules in gaetools (I've started this).
• Investigate comments libs
• Start building super-cool wordpress proxy.