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it does all that I need (and can do much more)
I was up and running in 10 minutes of so, but then it took me a little more for the following.

- there is no interface to change the avatars (I need only one user so I changed the file components/com_lyftenbloggie/assets/avatars/default.png

- when I create a new blog entry (in the backend) and save it the first time the created date "OK" on the left of the screen (why is that field not labelled "created" but "ok"?)
I found the solution (for me) to be as follows:
First, I browsed the code and noticed that the guilty function was something like store(). Then it was easy to find where the function resided: grep -r "function store(" . | grep "com_ly" told my in split seconds and then the fun started. The workaround was a follows
-1- edit the file administrator/components/com_lyftenbloggie/framework/core/entry.php
-2- locate the following lines
if($xmlrpc)
{
$this->_entry->created = (is_array($data['created'])) ? $data['created']['year'].'-'.$data['created']['month'].'-'.$data['created']['day'].' '.$data['created']['hour'].':'.$data['created']['minute'].':00' : gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
}else if($mainframe->isAdmin()){ //Small Fix for Backend date
$this->_entry->bind($data['details']);
unset($data['details']);
}else{
$this->_entry->created = $data['aa'].'-'.$data['mm'].'-'.$data['jj'].' '.$data['hh'].':'.$data['mn'].':00';
}

.... and replace them by
$this->_entry->created = (is_array($data['created'])) ? $data['created']['year'].'-'.$data['created']['month'].'-'.$data['created']['day'].' '.$data['created']['hour'].':'.$data['created']['minute'].':00' : gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');

(it seems to me that while displaying for the first time the blog entry the system already pulls in the create date so it is in the getInstance(), so there is no reason to do those things as above, at least so it seems to me)

- no interface to change the picture that is displayed next to the bloggies

With these few hacks you'll be up an running in less than 30 minutes.

CONCLUSION: excellent extension, some debugging needed.

Excellent forum, and fully integrated. It's small and takes full advantage of Joomla (fast, lots of parameters to make it do exactly what you want, etc.)

It's all I need, and does it very well.

Only regret is that you cannot switch off the need for a "design" (why is it not called "template"?); then it would automatically adapt to the colors of the website. But, hey, it should not be too complicated to change the included drawings.

So, this is only an alpha version ... that is VERY promising!!