RSS Alerts to IM: immedi.at
Never been much for actually using RSS readers. What I really wanted was a way of knowing when new posts had been added to blogs I read. So - I looked, and I found!
Simple bookmarklet which will send you instant messages whenever monitored urls are updated. Very cool.
Chuck - another good reason for sorting your domain out to actually point directly to your own blog (as in DNS, not web forwarding): this will not discover your RSS feeds off the domain forwarding frameset page (but I've subscribed using http://themojowire.blogspot.com). Speaking of which, I just noticed my blogroll has disappeared with this template. I will add it back in later.
Geoff - if you never wanted to see the boring stuff, you could always just subscribe to the rss feeds for the categories you're interested in (e.g. http://www.edgillett.com/blog/category/fun/feed/) See. WordPress is useful!