{"id":179,"date":"2003-02-18T22:40:59","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T22:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030218224059"},"modified":"2004-03-25T04:19:19","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T04:19:19","slug":"18022003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/02\/18022003\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and bobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So everyone (or a fairly close approximation to that number) knows that Google <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/2775249.stm\">bought<\/a> Pyra, the makers of blogger.  On numerous different weblogs you can read educated, and otherwise, guesses as to what the future holds and why Google though it was a good idea.  You can even read the initial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evhead.com\/archives\/2003_02_01_archive_blog.asp#104545291840524070\">reaction<\/a>, in a weblog of course, of the guy who started the company and sealed the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this however, no one seems to have yet commented on the fact that the news made the front page of the BBC this morning (EST morning that is).  Consider that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The BBC doesn&#8217;t tend to put companies buying each other out on the front page<\/li>\n<li>Pyra only employed 6 people<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Surely this should warrant some kind of record.  The challenge now must be for someone to get a company news worthy enough it gets (however briefly) the front page, but with only <b>5<\/b> employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So everyone (or a fairly close approximation to that number) knows that Google bought Pyra, the makers of blogger. On numerous different weblogs you can read educated, and otherwise, guesses as to what the future holds and why Google though it was a good idea. You can even read the initial reaction, in a weblog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}