This is a VERY old example of a weblog I used to organize some of my thesis information and thesis projects during my grad work: Weeblog.
I think it's the only one that remains of my large raft of blogs that I used for teaching and for research. This is a very simplified version of what our projects would look like, but they were based on the same type of tools.
The blog was created using MoveableType, that allows you to "clone" as many blogs as you want from a single installation of the software, so adding subsequent blogs took only a few minutes once the original install was done.
You can see some common blog features; calendars, categories, links to outside materials, "most recent" entries in link form.
I created Weeblog in a few days (that includes building the database and fighting with UNM's equivalent of CCHD for UNIX permissions). I spent a year or so adding to it as a way of organizing my thesis tools. It's set to archive things monthly, and I haven't posted to it in a long time. Clicking on the links to the left shows you some of the content that I put into it at UNM.
It's loaded with spam (which you can't see or get to until you get inside the administrator tools), many of the links don't work, and it's been inundated by bots (not a problem for us with our internal logins) since I kind of abandoned it to itself a few years ago. That makes it, by the way, a "zombie blog."
Weeblog also documents a K-log project (under "categories" select "Sandia K-log project") that I helped create in 2912 (with Jeff White, strangely enough). The project didn't off the ground, not for technological reasons, but because the purpose of the blog actually undermined some team members ability to consolidate knowledge (i.e. power) under their "domains."