I missed this Part One interview that came out earlier in the week.
Interesting view of blogs in light of Google’s acqusition of Pyra Labs earlier. The logic is pretty straight-forward: weblogs make more pages for Google to index and search, and that’s a good thing for Google.
It’s amazing that Pyra had 1 million users at the time Google acquired them. Many people I’ve talked to (almost most, really) haven’t heard of weblogs, so I do some evangelism and try to explain them, but I think most people still think this is only something a small select few people really do. 1 million users (and that’s just for Pyra Labs’ Blogger.com), while not mainstream, is a significant number. At Enonymous, we would have died to get 1 million users. Yahoo paid $1,000 per user – $2 Billion Dollars! – for Geocities’ 2 million users. So I think blogging is starting to definitely move from just something geeks do to something more and more of us are starting to do.