Excited to read about this. There’s a whole new world of static, database free blogs. This would be the answer for using Opera Unite or Github as free blog providers, or my Fastmail system (which I already use for email and for photo albums). Basically, it’s possible simply to write text files in any editor, and transform these into instant blog posts.
Here are some links I discovered so far:
http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/static_blog_generators.html
http://blog.notmyidea.org/pelican-a-simple-static-blog-generator-in-python.html
http://jekyllrb.com/
can import from WordPress.com
jeykll on fastmail http://tomalison.com/reference/2010/04/03/webdav/
Using github as a free blog provider
http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2011/04/05/how-to-blog-using-github-and-eclipse/
github pages:
http://pages.github.com/