blogger buyout

For those who missed it: in yet another brilliant move, Google has bought up Blogger, the web’s largest weblogging tool.

While some are questioning the wisdom of that move, I believe it makes perfect sense. Google is focused on, broadly, providing access to information. As the blogging trend grows, increasing percentages of the information on the web will appear in weblogs. Being tied more closely into blogs, then, means being tied more closely into information, exactly Google’s goal.

While I’m afraid I’m too entrepreneurial (which is to say, too bossy and too anti-authoritarian) to successfully work for anyone but myself, news like this just strengthens that small voice in the back of my head saying I should drop everything and apply for a Google job.