AOL Journals allows you to post to your blog via Instant Messenger. I’ve been playing around with it at: http://journals.aol.com/spudart/blog/. It’s one of those boring what I’m doing lately blogs. Nothing exciting about new interesting thoughts. The blog here on spudart.org is my more complete interesting thoughts blog, while this aol one is more personal news.
But I don’t like how I don’t have a backup of the things I post on the AOL blog. It would be nice to have a post via IM with livejournal or xanga, because they have great communities of people. But then there’s the backup issue too.
At work I’ve been playing with wordpress for a department blog, and it’s got lots of neat plug-ins. But none that allows you to post via IM. But it’s certainly nice that WordPress allows me to have my backup of all the posts and comments.
In an ideal world, I would like to use a livejournal or xanga, but also be able to back up my posts and be able to post via IM.
Why do you have to clean out your desk?
Clearing out all the old jobs and files related to that. Plus it’s just a good time to go through all the stuff under my desk and see what’s really needed.
I wonder if AOLJournals is down today. I”m trying post via IM but I keep getting this message from AOLJournalss: “I’m sorry. AOL Journals isn’t here right now. Try again later.”
This is day number three now of not being able to post to AOL Journals via instant message.
Day number six and counting of AOL Journals being broken. Why oh why? It’s amazing that you do a search for: “AOL Journals isn’t here right now”, and only 6 hits come up. Is this problem only with my account? Are others having this problem too?
After one full week of AOL Journals being down, it’s finally back up. So I’ll be posting there again regularly. http://journals.aol.com/spudart/blog/
Momma Mia! This post is #1 on google for” “post via IM”!