LJ by email

[avram]

Damn, just when I’d planned to take a day away from the computer to give my hand a rest.

Warren Ellis, author of many fine comics, publishes an email journal called Bad Signal. His latest entry talks about weblogs, moblogs, and LiveJournal. Here’s what he says:

LiveJournal is huge. Unlike Blogger, it's an interconnected community, where a profile page holds links to your friends on the system [...] and makes clickable links out of your list of interests [...]. And it is, I say again, bloody vast. I read Bára's LiveJournal this morning (she's the webdesigner for warrenellis.com) and looked in her profile. TRANSMETROPOLITAN is linked there. I clicked it. It showed me eight hundred other people who also have TRANSMET in their interests list. And that is, let's be honest, a minority interest.

What LiveJournal doesn't seem to have is a way to write to it remotely. Or to publish out to an email group.

I emailed him about PocketLJ, the LJ client for PDAs, to see if that fit what he meant about writing remotely. But the email publishing comment got me thinking. How hard would it be to add the ability for people to subscribe to getting your journal by email? Any bored Perl hackers out there want to take a stab at it?