Blogging technologies are most of time based on centralized website with e-mail validated comments.

XMPP is a set of various technologies, and one of them is “Publish/Subscribe”. We have used this extension and other ones to build a decentralized blogging/microblogging engine.

Using XMPP has many benefits, that will be explained in this talk: - using a standard allow us to communicate with other project (Movim, Live Jabber, Jappix, etc) - comments are using the strong XMPP authentication, no need for email validation - because of this authentication, spamming is more difficult - we can change the software rendering the blog easily - comments/articles are pushed in real-time - articles or comments can be easily linked - third party software manipulation is easy

I'll also explain how some features are managed like tags, private blogging, search, etc.