Dan Gillmor announces that Google is going to buy Pyra, makers of Blogger. It certainly validates blogging. I'm sure the blogoshere will be discussing nothing else for days.
I loved Ev's first response "Holy crap. Note to self: When you get off this panel, you should probably comment on this."
Congratulations to Ev and his crew. They certainly worked long and hard for this. I'm looking forward to seeing what Ev has to say. It isn't clear to me what the synergy is. Maybe it is just altruism? You could probably buy Pyra for Serge and Larry's pocket change. Why would Google want to get into the hosting business? And there will certainly be questions around fairness -- bloggers seem obsessed with Google and their Google rank - some of them will undoubtedly wonder if blogs hosted on Pyra/Google have higher ranks. No press releases yet from Google.
I wish Google wasn't located in Mountain View (a brutal commute from Berkeley). By all accounts, it is an interesting place to work.
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