] Google has bought Blogger. Forget those peace protests
] around the world on Saturday: there is nothing more
] interesting to the weblog community than the weblog
] community, and this was the news of the weekend.
] What, you might ask, has happened? Put simply, the
] world's favourite search engine has bought one of the
] companies that pioneered the online diary, or weblog.
] Google now owns a service that makes it easy to publish a
] weblog, as well as an archive that holds the text from
] more than one million weblogs, 200,000 of which are
] active today.
] Naturally, the story was broken via breathless weblog
] postings. Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News had
] learnt of the story and produced a special edition of his
] column to break it. Evan Williams, the chief executive of
] Pyra (the company that gave birth to Blogger) read
] Gillmor's story, which was published unexpectedly early,
] and announced the takeover at a US blogging event on
] Saturday afternoon.