Didn't have much time to blog (nor to work on telepathy) this last week.
Currently we have a usable msn connection manager for telepathy as well as a better python msn library, this new library : pymsn (previously known as libivy) now makes use of glib signals and does integrate seamlessly with the glib main loop :)
Concerning the connection manager, it supports conversations and presence signaling and handling. and I am currently working on the implementation of avatar support :)