I use the Jabber support in Adium to read real time updates from WordPress.com sites that I subscribe to. For the most part that is limited to just internal Automattic blogs.
I don’t particularly care for the default message style themes in Adium though. So I went through the long list of Adium message styles looking for something more readable. I eventually found Fiat:
After a few adjustments, specifically using the ‘Green over Blue’ variant and increasing the Lucida Grande font size to 14, I’m happy with the result.