Axel Beckert has released three new plugins recently. Here are his descriptions:

* acronyms works similar to and is losely based on Fletcher Penneys autolinks but instead of setting links it marks configurable keywords as abbreviation or acronym and show their expansion when hovering over the keyword (all using standard XHTML).

* xml_ping_generic is based on xml_ping_weblogs and can ping an arbitrary number of URLs to be pinged with the weblog.coms XML RPC ping API. By default it pings weblogs.com and technorati.com.

* date_rfc822 is nothing else than the 822-date command (which is written in Perl, too) wrapped into a blosxom plugin. Work similar to date_fullname. I use it for including <pubDate> tags in the RDF.

Here are the download links: acronyms (local download), xml_ping_generic (local download), date_rfc822 (local download).

Separately he also released his comments_antispam plugin. Read and download this useful anti-comment spam plugin here (local download here).