1. More templates
Blogger has a fairly respectable selection. But it's not enough. Only when no one bothers to use their own dreadfully unreadable custom template should Blogger say they have enough.

2. A language filter for that "Next Blog" button
It's mostly kinda cool that Blogger is multi-language. A lot of people complain that the internet is too U.S.-centric, so it's nice to see that our friends in Taiwan aren't shuffled off to something like blogger.com.tw. But my fuzzy feelings of international goodwill do not change the fact that I cannot read Chinese. Or Thai, Arabic, Hindi, and German.

How difficult would it really be for Blogger to add a menu in each blog's settings? Something like "This blog is written in…" and then add a menu to the Blogger bar "search only in language…"

Sometimes the Next Blog button will lead me to a blog I'd love to read, but just can't. Like this one. She's a 17 year-old liberal bisexual Peruvian city girl whose blog title is "Sticky Nights with Beba Newmann and Company." And just look at that booty. I'd be reading that blog five times a day. Except that I CAN'T READ THAT BLOG.

Blogger is such a cock teaser, dangling that in front of me.

3. Spam blog controls
For a while now advertising types have been talking about blogs as a "guerilla marketing" tool. Yeah, that's great. For them. But I'd love to hit the Next Blog button and be reasonably assured that I won't be accosted with offers for cheap airfare to Sweden.

Some people might argue that free speech protections cover commercial speech as well. But Blogger's TOS prohibit using your blog commercially (although it does make exceptions for affiliate programs.)

Spam blogs are a blatant violation of Blogger's terms. And they're really annoying.

4. Stronger tutorials for new users
Ok, this one is reaching a little. But I'd really like it if other bloggers realized that punctuation is pretty much required if you want anyone to understand what you're writing, proper capitalization makes for faster, easier reading, and under no circumstances should anyone ever use yellow text on a white background or more than two colors of text in the body of a post.

This isn't really Blogger's fault, but I'd feel better about the issue if Blogger was making a stronger effort to prevent it.

5. More server capacity.
This is Google we're talking about here. I can search for "Siberian foot toad" and Google will sort 8,000,000,000 web pages in 0.21 seconds. Why am I still haunted by "The document contains no data" messages?

I am so getting tired of those mystery error messages. So if anybody's looking at a gift for me, I really want a domain. And a webhost. And several of these.