racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

Everyone is into consolidation mode.  And it seems that blogs and blog-related services are the hot item.

AOL, a division of Time Warner (read: big media company!) recently purchased Weblogs, Inc., one of the big blogging networks (i.e., companies that pay bloggers to write!). 

From an MSNBC article:

America Online Inc. will inherit Engadget, Autoblog and other popular

Web journals as part of a $25 million deal announced Thursday that

expands AOL’s presence in the blogging community and the company’s

potential to attract advertising dollars.

And still more news on the blogging front: Verisign buys blog-update service Weblogs.com for about US$ 2 million!

Weblogs.com version 2.0 will be a significant improvement in

performance and features, but will remain fully backwards compatible.

If your publishing tools are configured to ping weblogs.com, you should

not have to change anything. Everything will just continue to work,

only faster, and all of the time. As we develop additional services,

we’ll do our best to make sure they are easy and reliable to use in the

tools of your choice.

Alrighty!  Pretty soon, blogs won’t be the grassroots-publishing

endeavors they’re known to be.  We will all be part of big blog

networks.

Resistance is futile!  You will be assimilated!

(via BlogHerald)

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