blog version 1.2 will be rolling out shortly (later today, or when I get around to it). Included in this release is a whole set of new faculties as well as a redesign of how the API functions. The new release includes user authentication and management and the ability to add threads as children to other threads. This version is geared more towards professional users or users in web communities. Be forewarned, this addition would require restructuring your blog interface to accomodate for the design differences, I suggest that you only upgrade if the changes appeal to you specifically.
Also on-the-way are new packages of utilities and visual interfaces. The utilities help set up and configure blog more hands-off. The visual interface is designed as an applet-servlet pair called bloglet and blogServe. They will communicate through XML and will display the journal in a simple tree-style interface. These packages will round off your blog collection and make it easy to drop a journal into place.