According to a recent email from Russ,

I am about to publish a little article on .NET services to SOA Ranch, the author of that article is Mark Christy and he’s looking at a .NET implementation of a collection of BLIP publishing and routing services.

The first of this series is now live,

SOA Ranch - Articles - SOA in .NET: A Step by Step Guide to creating and consuming services in .NET

In this article, resident SOA expert Mark Christy shows you how easy it is to create and consume a service using Microsoft’s Visual Studio environment

This doesn’t cover anything specific to Blip Messaging just yet. That’s next. In the mean time, if you are new to Service Oriented Architectures as they relate to Web Services and the .NET platform, this is a simple, straight forward entry point that will continue forward in a Blip-Oriented direction.

(BOP? < I like it! :D)