Davenet on Google-Blogger:

But this ain’t Kansas anymore. Blogging is growing up, and when we look back, the Google-Blogger deal will probably be seen as an inflection point, perhaps *the* moment when it all changed.

Evan Williams:

Oh, hi. Welcome to my home page. My name is Ev.

I’m a little busy right now, retooling for a different life. So I’ve taken the blog offline to clear my head.

Here are two good links from .netWire this morning.  The first should give the various .NETWeblogs some flow:

If you are the kind of person who just can not get enough .NET information, we have just what you are looking for.Many fellow members of your .NET Community have decided (for one reason or another) to start blogging about their experiences with .NET, Software development, and a little splash of life at .NET Weblogs.

The second looks promising for ASP.NET developers:

The ASP.NET Starter Kits are sample ASP.NET applications that provide code to accomplish common Web development tasks. Each sample is complete and well-documented so that you can use the code to kickstart your ASP.NET development projects today.

It sounds like I missed a cool blogger meetup last night:

The blogger meetup was pretty cool. There were only 4 attendees (including myself), but it was agood crowd. It was also neat that the Lehrer Report (PBS) had a crew there to interview us – they are doing a story on bloggers, and wanted to talk to us about what we do and why we do it. They got the crowd they wanted – none of us do political blogs – there’s mine (Smalltalk), an economic blogger, and one on web advertising.

I’ll have to catch it next time around.

Wired News:

The meteoric rise of weblogging is one of the most unexpected technology stories of the past year, and much like the commentary that populates these ever-changing digital diaries, the story of blogging keeps evolving.

One recent trend is “moblogging,” or mobile weblogging. New tools like Manywhere Moblogger, Wapblog and FoneBlog allow bloggers to post information about the minutiae of their lives from anywhere, not just from a PC.

Congrats to Russ for the Wired linkage.  I’m personally quite stunned to be on the recieving end of Wired linkage.

John Robb:

Radio back-up and restore is here.

Phil Waineright:

Google has bought Pyra Labs, the company behind the Blogger weblog publishing tool, it emerged last night. Appropriately, the story was broken in a weblog maintained by tech journalist and columnist Dan Gillmor, which previews a story that will run in today’s San Jose Mercury News.

Related coverage:

• Paolo: “Ok, you’ve heard the news by now: Weblogs are going Googling.”
• Russ: “Yep. Wow… that’s exciting.”
• Dave Winer: “Google News query for Pyra.”
• Phillip: “I don’t usually repost things from Slashdot, but this sort of thing doesn’t happen every day”
• Dave Johnson: “Holy crap is right.”
• Jeremy Zawodny: “Cool. Go Google!”
• Rajesh Jain: “Google enters the world of blogs.”
• Evan: “Note to self: When you get off this panel, you should probably comment on this.”