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BLOOGLE: Slate’s Steven Johnson has some interesting ideas about how Google’s acquisition of Blogger will change the ‘net. Most of us thought about how Google’s resources could help Blogger, but Johnson thinks it will mainly be the other way around.
About James Joyner
James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.
Wow! Blogging is definitely going mainstream. Google has just bought out Pyra, the parent company of Blogger. (link via GeekPress) The immediate impact should be good–more server space, more employees to provide tech support, and better indexing of weblogs into the Google search functions. I’m wondering, though, if the long term result won’t be making blogging a pay-as-you-go enterprise.
About James Joyner
James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.
