Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.

Comment: Wow and I was worried last week about MS coming out with free asp for blogging... Now that Blogger is in the hands of Google Blogger is on the safe side... I'm very happy for those guys mainly Evan Williams who went through the whole bubble burst and kept things going for us... thanks! Now that blogging is going to be big, what does it mean? more blogs, more content by joe users, and what else? As Ray Ozzie would put it, what's at the intersection of blogosphere and the desktop, opportunities or more of the same?