Rafat Ali of Paidcontent had the scoop last night that AOL was acquiring Weblogs, Inc.

Now we’ve got Jason Calacanis confirming the sale/purchase.

Other big blogs commenting:

Adrants
Sean Bonner
MarketingVox
gapingvoid

Blogebrity actually has the best round-up.

Long story short: the whole blogsphere is abuzz [Technorati].

I have one slightly selfish question. Since I work for a Time Warner business unit, a certain Very Funny cable network, does that give me an in for potentially writing for TV Squad now?

UPDATE: Problogger has deal details, while Rexblog and Ed Bott see the potential downsides of the deal.

I think all those bloggers need raises, Blackberrys and free AOL accounts, so I guess I’m in the same camp as Rex and Ed on this issue.

Do right by Weblogs, Inc. AOL!