I've been wrestling with a problem for a couple months - how to incorporate weblog functionality on my site's coverage of this year's local elections.  Essentially, we're going to integrate blogging a la VH1 with that network's “Best Week Ever“ blog, incorporating our producers and giving you a sneak peek at what's coming up with our TV shows, plus give you some behind the scenes stuff that either didn't make it to air or that we couldn't show on TV.

I was initially going to rent out space with TypePad, but then a couple of days ago after reading an article on creating your own blog on MSDN Magazine by my friend Marco Bellinaso I just fired up Word and started spec'ing out what I wanted to do. 

So, the build-in-your-damn-self concept came into play.  Which worked beautifully, because when I thought about it, we're not after high-volume, and some of the more advanced features (i.e., stats, trackback links, publising pictures via MMS on camera phones, et al.) are a tad outside of what we're going after.  So rather than pay out, I took 18 hours and built it myself.

Long story short, I'm proud to say I wrote my first, low-budget, low-volume blogging app, which I'll totally give you the code and SPROCs for, if you like.  It's by no means .TEXT, FlexWiki or something of that caliber, but it does the trick for us.  The blog itself allows for multiple authors and there are no compiled assemblies to play around with, so it's pretty flexible.  Rip it apart, put it back together, and send me your enhancements.  v.1.0. is written for ASP.NET v.1.1 in C#, and uses SQL Server 2000 at the back-end (sorry...I'm lazy and won't do the conversions to either  VB.NET or OLEDB). 

Just send me a note at jason@kuam.com if you'd like the code and it's yours!  :)