I can't help but feel an air of possibility - a tingle of excitement coming directly from the stir that online companies are causing. I'm anxious but hesitant to speculate that maybe, just maybe, the web is rising - again.

With the recent acquisition of Flickr by Yahoo, that opens up a world of possibilities as Yahoo plans to launch their Yahoo 360 service. So Google's got Picasa and Blogger, now Yahoo's got Flickr and is harvesting its own blogging service. Let's also not forget that Yahoo also has Geocities - and scoff if you will, but it still is a sizeable chunk of the web and web history for many of us... I bet I still have a geocities page somewhere in some old neighbourhood.

These are exciting times - just read Steve Rubel's blog, from the trenches of the blogging world, and you'll quickly get a sense of the outward momentum the blog phenomenon has.