Wednesday, September 28, 2005

AOLJournals Bot Is Back

Hi folks...the AOLJournals bot is back; our tech
folks contacted

the bot tech folks, who bounced (or rebooted) the bot (would that just

be "rebotted"?). It's working now.



If you haven't tried updating your AOL Journal or AIM Blog via IM yet,

it's pretty neat. It's most useful if you're away
from your regular

computer, or if you're using a cell phone with AIM or other mobile

device, but it can also be convienient for quick hit
entries
from your

computer.

Here's how it works:


1. In your IM client, open an IM to screen name
AOLJournals (this goes for AIM bloggers, as well).
For you lazy people, you can click these links to pop an IM to the bot:

AIM Users | AOL
Users


(You can add
AOLJournals to your Buddy List, just like any other
screen name.)

2. Type a message, four words or
longer. This will be the body of your entry. Send
the IM:



AOL Journals Bot: Adding the Body of Your Entry




3. If you have multiple Journals (under the screen name you're IMing

from), it will ask you to choose which Journal you want to publish
to:



AOL Journals Bot: Choose Your Journal




(You'll see that I use the word "foo" a lot when I need text for a
placeholder or example. Here's the Wikipedia
entry on "foo"
.)





4. If you want to give the entry a subject (if you don't, it will say

"Untitled", which isn't all that helpful or attractive), send another
IM starting with subject: (you need the colon)
followed by your title:



AOL Journals Bot: GiveĀ  Your Entry a<br />Subject




5. You can also add music: and
mood: the same way. For

moods, you have to stick with our mood options -- it

will tell you what they are if you type a non-supported mood (we know

you want free-form mood entry). You can just type "help" to see the

list of commands:



AOL Journals Bot: Adding Music & Moods




6. If you send another IM with more words, it will ask you if you want

to add them to  your current entry, or start a new
one.



AOL Journals Bot: Adding More Words




So that's how you use IMs to publish to your Journal.





The tech folks are also working on alternate ways to publish to your

Journal, though I don't have anything solid to report right now. I'll

keep you updated as things progress.  Thanks. -- Joe

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

do people really use the bot for entries?? I'm terrified to try for fear I will lose an entry.
~Julie

Anonymous said...

Since that is fixed do you think they could fix the problem with alerts?

Anonymous said...

Wow, thanks for this information. I don't have a cell phone though but, when I get one I'll use it. Thanks for all the info you give. This is a Very Helpful Journal. Thanks for making it.


                                                  Your Fellow Journalist,

                                                        Marsha


http://journals.aol.com/lauff4me/MyWorldYourWelcometoit/

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

THANK YOU, sry, but i looked for hours on end to find out how to do this, so im good 2 go now

Anonymous said...

it looks dum ok but post on my page ok???