Scott Rosenberg wrote in Life on the edge:

The danger here is that the dynamo of the Silicon Valley boom-bust cycle, in its hunger for Next Big Thing fuel, will seize upon Wi-Fi, blogs and Web services and then spit them out, chewed-up and spent -- before they've ever had a chance to mature and show off their potential.

Scott may be right. However...

The biggest breakthroughs may been made and identified already. UserLand has been a font of architectural innovation, and the other toolmakers have created moderately usable and lively social experiences for the text and keyboard crowd. But independent adoption may have found some natural limits. The rate of Livejournal subscriptions seem to be slowing some while manila (an enterprise blogging tool) seems to be taking off.

Modest amounts of cash injected without major disruption may allow blogging systems to reach a wider audience:

• improved reliability and scalability;
• serious user experience testing, redesign and reengineering;
• off-the-shelf training and other enterprise adoption materials;
• increased integration with Microsoft software, Sony cameras, Nokia phones and other leveraging products;
• and BigCo-ready sales and support teams.

How do you go from 1 million users to 10 million? to 100 million? Are the needs of the many reflected by the pioneers? Or does the toolkit need to change at its core? I'm reading The Chasm Companion: A Fieldbook to Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado. This seems like one of those times.

Only clueful VCs will buy blogging; it is very early and populated by many craftsmen personalities and curmudgeons. (I could be wrong.) Portals and ISPs - and others who value loyal visitors and community building - have a vested interest in coopting the blogosphere. Will GM be the first company to bundle a blog with every car? Since Earthlink became a Trellix customer and Interland bought the company, see others launch environments where everyone gets a blog. Where interests lead, money follows.

Dori Smith of Backup Brain:

Just because I'm thinking of it, here's the Famous Caramel French Toast recipe. Highly recommended for Christmas morning breakfasts.

...making me hungry. must buy eggs. and bread. and Grand Marnier. and brown sugar. mmmmmmmm.  other people feel the same way.

Mark Baker, who blogs as a Tech Curmudgeon, seeks work. If you're seeking someone who understands why RESTful has capital letters, he may be your candidate.

His home page shows mature priorities, with a personal section first (wife and child). Links to his resumé in the following Professional section. Serious list of technical affiliations and professional accomplishments.

On his resumé, Mark states his case far better than most.

Objective	To integrate the Web into everything
Overview	Mark is an expert in, and a student of, large scale distributed systems and software architecture in general. He has a special interest in application protocols and coordination languages, and in particular an indepth understanding of the workings of the World Wide Web. He believes that, for the foreseeable future, the bulk of innovation in Internet scale systems will occur via additional architectural constraints applied to the Web. For example the Semantic Web, or the Two Way Web. He also believes Web services, and the Grid, will fail, but has some ideas about how to fix them.
Target Position	Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Scientist, or similar, of a small/mid-sized company with a substantial investment in Web services, and with the foresight to recognize that there's a better way to use the Web to solve these problems. My role could involve any or all of the following; rearchitecting the product line to be suitable for Internet scale deployment engaging and educating customers about this new approach participating in related standardization efforts public speaking and writing introducing Semantic Web technologies for data integration purposes defining and implementing strategic initiatives as part of the executive team prototyping new projects and proofs-of-concept

Note how quickly and directly Marks says what he wants and how he can help a prospective employer.  

Two nits.

• Not clear where he lives/works. I guess Ottawa from his last job and Canada from his domain and schooling. Make it easy to assess your geographic fit for a job, unless you are willing to relocate or if location doesn't matter for your job.
• Contact information is in the footer of his home page and not on his CV. No metro area info. Make it easy to reach out to you on every page. 

I keep thinking Mark should hook up with Craig Burton.

 as of 16 December 2002 : 0416 PST [a klog apart Bloggers for Hire]