Dave writes in Scripting News:

"Good morning weblog fans. I got a few emails overnight about a project John, Jake and Lawrence are doing with a famous publication while I'm reading books and watching movies, walking and recuperating. Murphy-willing we'll be hosting thousands of weblogs under a new brand quite soon."

I'll not spoil the surprise but one of my regular weblog reads reports on the likely bigPub that's in cahoots with Userland ;-)