I suppose you can modify the vBJournal hack, make it integrate with the calendar hack, add the Custom Page hack, and the User Comment hack, and you have something similar...
I don't know the rest but morgan has most of them listed.
So blogging has become very popular and movabletype seems to be the best choice of most people. Even the Barenakedladies blog!
Just because Chris Pirillo uses and likes blogs doesn't mean anything. Pirillo hails from my town and his opinion doesn't mean squat. He couldn't even keep his job with Tech TV. They dumped him. Blogs are for those that have nothing else to do, sorry to say.