Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time

This is huge: Google has bought Pyra, the company that brought Blogger to this world, and single-handedly revolutionized blogging.

“But now Google will surge to the forefront of what David Krane, the company’s director of corporate communications, called ‘a global self-publishing phenomenon that connects Internet users with dynamic, diverse points of view while also enabling comment and participation.’

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