thanks for this. one barrier for me is that it is a requirement for the code snippets to render nicely in google reader, but this can probably be solved by using markdown instead of gists. another barrier is that i can't write special code, like a vanity url redirector, to keep my SEO juice when content moves, but maybe this is not so big an issue as i originally thought it was.

what is your draft management workflow like? this is important to me too, more important in fact than optimizing for people to actually read the blog, because if draft management sucks then i don't blog enough to get readers.