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Dave Winer on the Deal:
It's probably a good thing for blogging, and probably also a good thing for Blogger's competitors because it's likely to suck in other Google-like companies. It's great that Google decided to buy rather than make. I wouldn't be surprised if the other popular blogging tools had similar deals cooking.
So the idea of being able to provide blog systems is attracting "Google-like" companies. These are Portals (this term is morphing so fast, as evidenced by the gold rush mentality they have taken on re: the "gold in them thar hills they see in Weblogs), and so hooking themselves up this rapidly expanding Web framework is a move to expand the valuye of their "network". The value of a network increases with the number of nodes, and the Weblog universe is "node-producing". The myriad ways of interlinking between weblogs and other Web services (through XML) is spreading the tentacles of interactivity.
8:05:54 PM 
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Gillmor's eJournal celebrates the purchase of Pyra (Blogger.com) by Google :
The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online publishing that has begun to change the equations of online news and information. Weblogs are frequently updated, with items appearing in reverse chronological order (the most recent postings appear first). Typically they include links to other pages on the Internet, and the topics range from technology to politics to just about anything you can name. Many weblogs invite feedback through discussion postings, and weblogs often point to other weblogs in an ecosystem of news, opinions and ideas...
Major technology companies are seeing the potential. Tripod, the consumer web-publishing unit of Terra Lycos, recently introduced a "Blog Builder" tool. America Online is expected to do something similar, and no one will be surprised if Yahoo and Microsoft do the same. Are more buyouts of blog toolmakers in the offing?
7:48:26 PM
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Google has bought Pyra (Blogger.com). This article from Executive Summary Consulting
Regardless of how Google chooses to develop the Blogger.com service itself, a major player in the online media space has made a serious bet that blogs are going to be something worthwhile for the long term. And that in itself is what's most important in this news. Blogs have arrived. They've reached the tipping point, crossed the chasm, whatever you want to call it.
I've been pushing the idea of Weblogs as "Community Building Tools" to every Church related technology shop I have talked with about their "need for me". And, as this indicates, to any non-Church , any-kind-of business. The idea that there is value in "providing blog space" and "blog tools" is springing up everywhere. (I read a few items just recetnly about Lycos doing the same , tied in with their GeoCities. Usually, as it was with the Web, Church organizations follow somewhat closely behind in "catching on" (though not quickly enough behind).
7:37:38 PM
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