Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog

Luis F. Escalante writes "Evan, creator of Blogger, owned by Google, finally convinced Larry, Sergey and Co. to start up a blog. According to Evan's first post, we'll soon be able to know "What Larry had for breakfast. What Sergey thinks of that Hellboy movie. Which Dawson's Creek character reminds us most of Eric.""

Comments

Will we find out...

[baudilus]

..why people think blogs are so cool, when they obviously aren't?

Re:Will we find out...

[lpangelrob2]

A blog is a one-person message board, where people reply with comments. Usually. Slashdot is kind of like a blog. A bunch of one-person posts biased (often heavily) one way or another.

People read blogs because it either a.) Validates their thinking (my guess: 95%), or b.) Offers an opportunity to challenge their current ways of thinking, and an avenue to respond to the opportunity (again my guess: less than 5%). Remember, blogs are usually heavily biased, so the people that read the blogs often enough to see every post probably agree with the author. Are not both stories and comments on /. heavily biased?

So I've rambled enough, but to paraphrase Pirates of the Caribbean... You'd better start believing in blogs, because you're living in one. :-)

Re:Will we find out...

[baudilus]

The major difference is stories on /. can be posted by anyone, and bias aside, usually have content that is generally interesting to the /. demographic.

The majority of personal blogs are about whatever mundane thing happened to the person on the way to the grocery store. Outside of posting one for family and friends, I don't see the point.

Re:Will we find out...

[dustmote]

Outside of posting one for family and friends, I don't see the point.

I think that is the point. I have a blog, and it's a no-holds-barred crapfest to anyone who doesn't know me. (In fact, it's a no-holds-barred crapfest to most people who do...) I have a few friends who read it just to see what I'm up to, and I just use it as a semi-public journal/collection of links I'm afraid I'll never find again. I don't ask anyone to read it, I don't think anyone does. (I've had 3800 hits since 2001, most of them myself.) Still, more than one friend has re-found me through it, so I keep it up. That, and I'd miss the links to stuff that I've thrown up haphazardly. Yeah, it sucks, go to some other page.

Re:Will we find out...

[phyruxus]

>> Perhaps more specifically asked is...Why do people choose to read so much about and into other people's lives and so little into their own?

"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself." ~Publius Terentius Afer

If you gaze into an abyss, the abyss looks also into thee.

let me be the first to say...

[happyfrogcow]

...thftp! who cares!?

Bloggle?

[Power Everywhere]

What Larry had for breakfast. What Sergey thinks of that Hellboy movie. Which Dawson's Creek character reminds us most of Eric.

I'd be much more interested to know where the last few tweaks for the latest algorithm update came from, or what kind of servers they'll be upgrading to in the next few weeks. Their personal lives are of little consequence to Google or anyone involved with them.

Zuh?

[RinkRat]

I thought that there was some sort of 'Quiet Period' before an IPO. Posting something like "I bought another Maserati today and I'll buy Caesar's Palace when I cash out my shares next week! Hahahahaha, see you in Hell, suckers!" cannot be considered a Good Thing.

Of course, IANAMW - I am not a market weenie. My money's in CDs...

Wow!

[stratjakt]

More shit I dont want to read to clog up my google results.

Seriously, why cant we have a "blog" flag or something, so I can filter that stuff out of google searches? It's really annoying when I'm trying to research a problem and get nothing but other people ranting about the same problem..

Blogs are very rarely female supermodels with nude pics and lurid descriptions of their sexual fantasies.

Something in robots.txt that says "unlikely that anyone gives a rats ass"?

Interesting...

[psst]

I wonder if this new blog has anything to do with the long anticipated new version of Blogger rolling out on May 5th? After all, Blogger is owned by Google.

Nah, it's probably just a coincidence.

Re:So, what did Larry have for breakfast?

[glpierce]

"people don't get satire"

More to the point: people don't get the Coen Brothers.

Re:Inside insights

[_anomaly_]

I really hope this provides us (web developers) with some insights on how google works and evolves so we can make sure good sites end up in the top results

You really think that the engineers and other powers-that-be posting on this blog will give you the _Top_10_Ways_to_Get_to_the_TOP_?

I thought Google's attraction was that it was as impartial as possible, and that the search results, aside from precisely placed ads, were directly related to matching ACTUAL content to the query.

Not to mention that posting such a list of "things to do" on this blog would, practically speaking, become null and void when everyone and his half-brother started using them.

Or, maybe I'm just taking your post the wrong way...

Blogs.. BORING!

[dustinbarbour]

I hate blogs. Why must everyone in the world think their thoughts are a veritable goldmine of entertainment? I don't get it. :-\

Ok, I'm over blogs. Waiit, I've never been under!

[hardaker]

I've just never caught on to the idea. I don't read celeberty blogs, I don't write one (who the heck would even care what I think). I used to keep a journal at one point (because, well, emacs had the ability to do it so I had to play with it of course). But seriously, I'd never consider publishing it not because its private but rather "who the heck would care"?

We're in the information overload age. People, get a clue. We need to refine our content and make it worth reading, not spew endlessly hoping it'll be useful to someone. I'm much more interested in the few words that someone wise has to say than the 1000s of words that the average masses has to say.

Of course... By posting this message to slashdot, I may have just killed my own notion of it's pointless to post stupid rambling thoughts.

No RSS Feed?

[JamesOfTheDesert]

Oh, right. Google/Blogger has picked sides in the feed format war.

What a shame.

Who Cares?

[$criptah]

Who the fuck cares? Look, I know that we have plenty of fifteen year-old girls who cannot live a day without being updated with the latest information about J. Lo and Britney Spears. Also, there are plenty of geeks who complain about people giving too much crap about celebrities; however, rants stop when it comes to influential people in the tech. field.

Do you really care what somebody eats for breakfast? No, really? Are you that fucking bored out of your mind that you're willing to waste electrons and your time to read about how somebody famous deals with everyday life? Jesus, get a fucking live and do something productive.

Re:Ok, I'm over blogs. Waiit, I've never been unde

[mandalayx]

I've just never caught on to the idea. I don't read celeberty blogs, I don't write one (who the heck would even care what I think).

I am in full agreement with you. I don't really care what you had for breakfast, sorry.

But it's clear that there's a large subset of the population that cares what Britney Spears had for breakfast. Look at all the folks who watch celebrity gossip, obsess over the lives of their idols, etc. We've even seen new idols created in front of our eyes (Survivor, The Apprentice, American Idol, et al), and I think that we're seeing much of the same with blogs. Check out some of the more popular blogs and I'm sure you'll find the same kind of pattern.

Re:Blog? How about design notes?

[LikitaRenn]

the reason that "seth" is posting my lj as an example is because when we recently decided that we were tired of trying to be friends and putting up with each other's crap (after a misguided, and immature "internet relationship" over a year ago), he decided to be a spiteful little prick. the point is that he, though older than me, is even more immature in this stupid "post" of his, than all of my teenage crap that i rant about in the journal that i mistakenly gave him the link to. "seth"-no one's forcing you to do anything, i sent the link out as a group email to the people i considered my friends at the time. if you have anything bad to say about me (though i thought we weren't going to waste our time on each other anymore... are you mad that i blocked you?), please say it on something that i actually read, so that i don't have to get a link from an anonymous source to a post in which you are talking shit about me and posting my journal for everyone to, as i'm sure you hoped by the nature of this post, ridicule. thank you.

You don't Understand why Information is Important

[Laebshade]

You don't understand. When information is allowed to flow freely ideas abound. Sure, there are thousands and thousands of people who write about who they're dating and what color dress they're wearing to the movies tonight, but occasional you come across people that have ideas. Real ideas, good ideas. I don't think it's the information overload, as in the true meaning of it being excessive. Unrefined yes. Blogs are like slightly-refined brainstorming activities.

The dissemination of information is freedom and is one of the rights we hold dearly.