Ok, I can finally tell you guys why I've been so busy and stressed-out lately with this Blog-Storm stuff.
Yahoo! is buying
Blog-Storm/
Humor-Blogs.com!
The deal was just finalized yesterday. I won't say how much they're paying for it, but I will tell you that I put my notice in at Google this morning. It was going to be a bit of a conflict of interest anyway, since Yahoo! wants me to stay on as a consultant for at least 6 months.
I wouldn't expect to see a lot of changes on the HB/BS sites; I think Yahoo! plans to leave them pretty much as is, but incorporate some of the back end logic into their
MyBlogLog site.
As you can imagine, I'm going to be pretty busy for a while as I wrap things up at Google and work on the HB/BS transition at the same time, but I hope to have the time to continue blogging. At the very least, I'll post a status update in a few days.
Thanks to all of you for your support of HB and BS. This never would have happened without you.
More detail
here.