raelity bytes The design philosophy underpinning Blosxom is a focus on the nexus of simplicity, usability, and interoperability. Blogging should be as simple as typing away in your text editor of choice and hitting Save. Blogging should be as intuitive and second nature as working with files and directories. A blogging system should be extensible without requiring much in the way of specific know-how; it should interoperate with and make full use of all the operating system and Web server beneath its feet have to offer.