Friday, February 09, 2001

I've been reading a lot about the decline of Pyra, the company behind my beloved Blogger. I'm hardly a web junkie, but in some much more human sense, I've always felt some sort of connection to the people behind Blogger. (Creepy? Perhaps.) They certainly don't know me. They've never read my blog, but I've read theirs. Their vision of what Blogger could be, and their own quirky personalities helped put a human face on a "hot" company. Reading the personal report by one of the Bloggerfolk about exactly what went wrong upset me, largely because I identified so closely with it. My fear in life has always been that I'm a dreamer, not so much a doer. It scares me that maybe none of my big dreams will ever materialize. I'll think about them too much; I'll outline exactly how my ideas will be executed, and then I'll sit back and smile. That's not what the people at Pyra did. They had an idea, and they went with it. That's why Blogger exists. That's why .righter rants. exists. Personally, I'm wildly impressed. Unfortunately, the world can be this terribly unfair place where nobody cares so much what I think (slightly melodramatic and untrue). I'm just too idealistic. I can't seem to accept the fact that a company made up of great people with great ideas just went defunct. If they can't make it, what on earth will I do?

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