Danny Sullivan of Search Engine posts an excellent article on Google's march into contextual ads or in lay-terms micro-targeted advertising. the article also discusses what Google is currently doing with Blogger -- ads, of course -- did you expect anything else in the first weeks after the purchase?

Is the blogging business starting to move at blogspeed?

Yesterday (Mar-03) The Wall Street Journal stated that

"...weblogs, the running online journals are one of the few "hot" parts of the online world right now. Blog start-ups are being bought up by bigger Web companies, which are betting that lots of people will be willing to pay $10 or $20 a month to be able to publish their daily thoughts on Saddam Hussein, Bill Gates or Justin Timberlake."

How long will it be until every ISP or web site hosting company that is in dire need of new recurring revenue wakes up to the huge revenue potential of their business customers adding hosted blogs to their communications efforts? Earthlink now offers a blogging component, Interland bought Trellix and AOL is rumored to be ready to launch their blogging initiative.

Where are Verio and the other small business oriented ISPs and hosting companies?

My phone lines are open to any ISPs or hosting companies that might like to explore generating hundreds of thousands of new monthly business blogging revenue...

John Lawlor - blogging from Boca Raton 866.44B.BLOG 561.750.8095 :}