Read WordPress.com Blogs In Your (Jabber) IM Client

WordPress is in news these days, for two major reasons. We saw that the self-hosted WordPress blogs are under security risk and later Matt Mullenweg advised users to upgrade (Read : Robert Scoble feel unsafe). The second big news was addition of a new feature : rssCloud.

The rssCloud is basically a way for people to get push notifications for updates. But, unfortunately Google Reader and FeedDemon (and other popular clients) are not supporting rssCloud at this time.

[ Lazyfeed has announced that it will integrate rssCloud soon ]

To read a WordPress.com blog (i.e.; hosted with WordPress.com, and not just xyz.wordpress.com) in your IM client, you need to use a Jabber based client like Gtalk or Pidgin.

• Add bot@im.wordpress.com to your buddy list.
• To subscribe a blog send command sub blogurl. Hence, to subscribe the official WP blog send sub en.blog.wordpress.com
• For help send command help
  
• To unsubscribe send unsub blogurl
• To see the list of current subscriptions send subs

This bot will update you in real time.

This im bot does not support self-hosted WordPress blogs (like mine). Still, there are few popular blogs which are hosted with WordPress.com (like Scobleizer, Gigaom). You can see this list of top blogs hosted with WordPress.com.

Refer : http://support.wordpress.com/jabber/

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