AOL Blogs With AOL Journals
AOL has added blogs to its mesenger service with AOL Journals. The inclusion of AOL Journals functionality to AIM opens up the blogging service to 36 million active IM users.
From eWeek: America Online Inc. on Thursday opened its AOL Journals blog-publishing service to members of AOL Instant Messenger members, letting them create and manage blogs using their AIM screen names.
By tying AOL Journals to AIM, AOL is expanding the blogging service to its 36 million active IM users. AOL Journals previously was only available to AOL subscribers.
AIM users also can submit posts to their AOL Journals blogs through IM. When they are logged in to the screen name associated with a blog, they can send a message to AOL Journals in order to have it published, AOL officials said.
“The blogging phenomenon grows stronger each day and has especially taken hold among our community of members,” said Bill Schreiner, AOL’s vice president of community, in a statement.
