Rumor has it that after Harvard and Standford, EPFL and the 17500 blogs offered by the University of Vienna to all students and staff, a similar project is on the at the Université de Fribourg.

The only statement I could get so far is this:

...actuellement il n'y a rien d'officiel, mais micromus au niveau des étudiants va proposer un blog d'ici la rentrée.

The "rentrée" is soon, so let's wait and see.

Bitflux is working on a blog - once again, you might say.
It seems like it doesn't want to be the feature loaden[1] überblog, but it very much looks like it'll have all the features you'd expect from a reasonable blogging software these days. The most important "feature" is not "moblogging" or similar buzzword, but the seamless integration into the Bitflux CMS, as a plugin. Add as many blogs as you like to your website like 1-2-3. Like plug and play. Plug and blog.[2]
Together with their own hosting services // the neat webinstaller which makes setting up the CMS a matter of minutes, this might very well become a valid alternative for bloggers with content. If you have a weakness for Open Source Software, Php5, Popoon and Xsl (Oh! I qualify! ;-)) this does sound tempting indeed.
And as it's my birthday (Gere and Chregu remembered, so nice), I dare to make a wish: Make it compatible with some other blogging tool in respect to (sub-)plugins. I want a book list/Amazon plugin. I wish I wish I wish :)



[1] Although the feature list in the BxCMSWiki is still growing and not substantially less what we have in the tool I'm using now.
[2] You can follow its development in their SVN repository