What is the minimum viable blog?

Interestingly, I think blogging will come back full circle for 'hacker' bloggers, and go back to basics.

As the other mentions in another [post](http://www.dev.gd/20130211-your-blog-navigation-is-superfluo...), blog navigation is bordering on superflous. How often do you stay to read the rest of a blog, and if so, do you go through complex CMS tagging systems?

I'm currently exploring the option of using Cake to generate new posts, and a simple list of links on the root domain for navigation (which I believe I should be able to append to with Cake). This will generate static HTML that I can rsync to my server, or push to S3.