JLP of All Financial Matters notes that Engadget and Gizmodo were valued at $30 million and $50 million, respectively, according to a recent article in Fortune. JLP then figures his blog is worth a cool quarter mil based the number of visitors he gets in proportion to these uber-popular.

As a company, Google just doesn't seem to be able to stop its own growth. Not that it wants to – why would it? But a part of me wonders if it's not starting to act like a giant black hole that will soon suck all aspects of life into its dark and hungry maw.

For a long time, I've used a program called Keyring for Palm OS on my Sony Clié. It's a really good program that has served me well, but a few months ago I decided that my pockets were starting to get really full what with my Clié, a cell phone, keys, USB drive, money, my new Creative Zen Vision W, and various and sundry other items. I didn't want to start carrying a purse, so I figured it was time to trim down some of the accessories I was carrying.