AOL Journals (blogging) is live! |
Thanks to Dave Winer, who linked to Michael Gartenberg’s weblog I have just learned that AOL’s weblogs are now LIVE! Yesterday, I was saying I had just checked out AOL 9.0 Optimized beta. You can create one too, but you must be an AOL member (a good sticky feature for AOL so that members never leave and thus, lose their weblog, I guess). I set up my AOL Journal (blog) in about 2 minutes and here is the URL to the blog (you know you want to bookmark it! LOL): http://journals.aol.com/tdphpscripts/Technologyontheweb/
It adds a bot to your IM list (see #1) so you can just type a normal IM to the AOL Journal bot (see #2) and it will create a new blog entry (see #3). Slick!
How about adding images? Didn’t figure that out on a quick view yet. Also, I’m not sure why it added the words “feeling” and “hearing” to my blog entry. Maybe the AOL Journal bot has issues 
Hmm
Update: There doesn’t appear to be a way to add pictures through IM to the AOL Journal bot (yet), but when you use the Add Entry link (doh! see above) then it is pretty obvious how to add pictures. The feeling is your mood at the time of the entry and you can choose that from the dropdown menu, and you can also select what music you are listening to (for the hearing). You can also update through IM using the following codes:
Journal Commands
Change Journals: Type journal: followed by a journal name (e.g. journal:my first journal).
Add Subject to Entry: Type subject: followed by a journal entry subject (e.g. subject:blogs).
Add Music to Entry: Type music: followed by a description of what you’re listening to at the moment (e.g. music:springsteen).
Add Mood to Entry:Type mood: followed by a mood (e.g. mood:happy).
Quit Journal: Type quit to leave the journal you’re currently working on.
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