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Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog

Posted by timothy on from the fawning-attention dept.

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.""

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  1. Will we find out... by baudilus · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

    1. Re:Will we find out... by lpangelrob2 · · Score: 5, Insightful
      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. :-)

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    2. Re:Will we find out... by dustmote · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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    3. Re:Will we find out... by phyruxus · · Score: 5, Insightful
      >> 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.

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  2. Bloggle? by Power+Everywhere · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Zuh? by RinkRat · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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...

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  4. Interesting... by psst · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:So, what did Larry have for breakfast? by glpierce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "people don't get satire"

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

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  6. Blogs.. BORING! by dustinbarbour · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

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  7. Ok, I'm over blogs. Waiit, I've never been under! by hardaker · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

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