I’ve wanted to use emacs as a blogging tool for a long time, but I’ve always run into issues. Today I ran across a blog post that describes an approach that works:

http://ektich.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/how-to-blog-from-emacs/

In addition to the instructions there, I had to pull down:

elib (with apt)

xml.el (from: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/skyserver/xml.el)

Ping me with questions – more details soon to come as I play with mt.el, and possibly weblogger.el (which looks nicer, on first impressions.)