I am almost done with the next round of changes to this site and blog. I should have all the new stuff up tomorrow.

I had these comments below sitting on my "drawing board" and thought I would post them rather than let them stagnate.

Mark Lussier announced that the new version of blojsim, the IM-to-blog tool is in the works (currently only for blojsom). blojsim is growing beyond being just for blojsom—it will be blog agnostic.

I have some more ideas for blojsim and using IM-with-blog, which I am summarizing here:

In general, use IM to register presence with blog-IM-bot. This is basically along the lines of rss-im.

IM-with-blog feature ideas:

• subscribe to be messaged when the blog updates (RSS-like)
• list the last x entries
• list the blog categories. List the last x entries from category y
• grab full text for entry z
• grab comments for entry z
• post a comment to entry z
• grab trackbacks for entry z
• replace (edit) entry z with new text

These features may be neat for people, but could be interesting for applications that poll multiple blogs and aggregate them!

Also, after I upload the upgraded features / design for this blog, I will probably post more about the new blojsom flavor I created for the blog archives. Along these lines I was thinking of an "edit" flavor and edit plugin for browser based creation / editing of blog entries.