Pyra, the dotcom that makes Blogger, is down to just one employee, but he says that Blogger will live on. Interestingly, Meg (co-founder and/or second employee, depending on who you listen to) doesn’t mention a word of it.

Peter Merholz offers his take on Pyra’s woes here:

A colleague said it best, and perhaps most brutally, when he said that it seemed that Blogger was run as “a hobby.” Numerous avenues for garnering revenue could have been pursued–none were. For me, that’s always been the most perplexing aspect of this whole endeavor. It’s as if there was simply a mental or organizational block toward accruing money. Which is fine for a hobby. But, and this is bleedingly obvious, not for a business.

Can it be that there are people in this business who don’t realize that it’s always about money?

It’s time to track down that Javascript that does what Blogger does, Ev’s assurances notwithstanding. Thanks, guys, it was fun while it lasted.

[Update: if you can’t get to the Evhead link, keep trying. Something is screwed up there; sometimes it asks for a password, sometimes it doesn’t. Anonymous login doesn’t work. Tell me again how much longer Blogger will live?]

[Another update: It seems to be a problem at Pyra. The Megnut link is now not working. Or maybe they’re mad at me for talking about them> :-)]