Have there been any major blogging technology related advances in the last year? Feedster is "enh" for me. Bittorrent and RSS feels like a solution in search of a problem. User interfaces and authoring tools are moribund. Atom is seeping into the ground, but there hasn't been a breakout application.
I know I've mentioned this before, but a desktop aggregator, extensible using a major scripting language, might spark things. The key leverage I'm looking for is hooking into the user's interactions with the aggregator, not synthetic feeds, or remote control. I wanna know when the user reads an item, when they add a new feed, when they delete a feed, when they mark an item, etc. And I want to be able to add new toolbars, menus, visualizations, etc. Yeah, I know Awasu and Radiou Userland can do some of that, but I found the extension mechanisms in both to be a bit clunky.
Still pining for an aggregator platform on par with Gnus/Emacs, or Mozilla.