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.""

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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...

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...

[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.