Paul,
not so easy to give you an moderate short answer,. but will I try it.
Yes this is one of the feature which I would like to see in this blog module.
Will it be in the next version ? I don't think so. Currently we (specifically I) have the problem that it is not clear how the future of DNN looks like. That means how long does we support a DNN 3.X (NET Framework 1.1) style version and when will be the move to the new DNN 4.X style (NET Framework 2).
The new Framework 2 and the new development environment VS2005 includes a lot of extension which makes it much more easy to implement features like blogger api and pings to blogger.com and so on, so that I would like to implement these features at a time when it is not longer necessary to support two different platforms.
Because there are a lot of feature which I would like to see in the blog module which do not need the new feature of NET Framework 2 my priority is to implement those feature so that it is easy to support 2 different versions (3.X style and 4.X style).
I have finished at the moment the first version of the blog module which is running dedicated under NET Framework 2 and VS2005 .
I plan to release from next version on two versions, a 3.X style and a 4.X style version (if we have a deployment strategy until then ) and both versions should have the same functionality implemented.
regards
HP