It's all over the web by now, I'm sure. I first saw it at Boing Boing. Picture me stomping around with my hands in fists saying, "Damn it, damn it, damn it." I love Blogger. It makes publishing incredibly easy. Not foolproof, it has it's problems, but easy. I would never sit down ten times a day and open up BBEdit (okay, it's always open, so I wouldn't actually have to open it, but still), write a paragraph, format it, ftp it to the server, check it . . . Witness how infrequent my journal entries are now--a couple of times a week.

My concern, of course, is that just like every other service that started out free, they will set a price for it (well, why wouldn't they, it's a business after all) that I won't be willing to pay. I am already paying for Blogger Pro because I valued it enough, and valued the work of Pyra enough, to feel it was worth a contribution. But would I pay Google for it? Dunno. I guess it will depend on how much. I really can't justify spending any more money on my websites, no matter how much it is.

I hope they prove me wrong. The other thing, of course, is concern about who owns copyright. I don't know enough about it to argue about it, but I'm glad that all of my blogs are resident on servers that I "own" (i.e., they live at domains that I own, not on BlogSpot). In any event, one of the first things I did was to go to Blogger and go into each of my blogs and copy and save the template. You know, just in case I have to recreate it somewhere else . . .

Damn it.

Oh, well, you know, yeah, yay for Pyra. I've just been through this whole buy out thing too many things not to be bummed by it.