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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.""
So, what did Larry have for breakfast?
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..why people think blogs are so cool, when they obviously aren't?
I'd much rather see how he and those other smart folks designed & "thought of" all those cool services in the first place. I could care less what kind of breakfast he eats, unless he brews his coffee with a Mr. Fusion.
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Interesting. No wait, the other thing - tedious.
unless he brews his coffee with a Mr. Fusion.
Broogle?
Bloogle
Glog
Gooble
Gooblog
Any others?
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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Of course, IANAMW - I am not a market weenie. My money's in CDs...
RinkRat
"What Larry had for breakfast. What Sergey thinks of that Hellboy movie. Which Dawson's Creek character reminds us most of Eric."
So much for the IPO quiet period.
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.
Seriously. It's rare to see a blog without the word "blog" on the page somewhere. Works pretty well.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
This is great news!
I mean - uhm..
What?
er... wait. They don't mean Evan Williams as in Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey?
ahem. nevermind.
That's cool, as long as they don't start posting dark poetry.
Hear hear!
"Blogs"* have potential. Currently they are utterly disgusting because the whole thing regarding blogs and journals is ruined by boring people forcing their dull lives down our throats. Fortunately, the technology regarding journals is good and there have been some very good journals around. Now tell me, what's more interesting? A boring rand( 12, 50 ) year old (emo|goth|depressed) tosser from randomCity() ranting on about randomSubject() or having the creators of Google shed some light on the technical insides of Google? What about a journal where some people keep track of major (OS) projects? Gives one a view into what was considered during design, what was dropped, why it was dropped, what problems were encountered and so on. Even if you don't make your journals public, they'd make GREAT referrence material to improve oneself upon. After all, you learn the most from your own mistakes and if you can review the entire process instead of just the mistake itself, it ought to be more helpful.
* ... Change of name please. Blogs will forever be stained by the stupidity that is currently infecting them. That, and whoever made that word up should be hung, shot, burned, quartered and then REALLY hurt.
Hate me!
'Blooger'
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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You should check out blogs.msdn.com if your interested in stuff like this.
Especially interesting is Chris Pratley's web log. He's got some great posts on the history of Word, the Open Source movement and other fun stuff.
here is the google cache.
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
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.
The next site to slashdot will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and start slashdotting it early!
Originally he said something like, "But when we opened an office in Balgalore, suddenly we were knee-deep in the debate about outsourcing." They must have asked him to change it. Does anyone have the original blog item in their cache? I'd be interested to read it again, and compare!
May 11, 2004
Opened up an office in Zurich, interviewing people.
McDonald's new chicken mcnuggets are actually pretty good
May 22, 2004
Worked very late today; also helped admin move some machines to the new location; local sandwich shop brought some roast beef po-boys
June 11, 2004
Our IPO went off today; stock jumped to $67/share; That new blonde we hired in the front office has begun flirting with me shamelessly.
July 27, 2004
Wolfgang Puck showed up in the offices today and made my favorite: Lobster & Truffle bisque with caviar. Though the Lobsters were only four pounders, I'll let it go this time.
Stupid contractors have missed another deadline for installing the penguin-shaped jacuzzi in the east wing. This is getting frustrating.
August 3, 2004
Got my new Lambourghini in and someone scuffed the ivory-trimmed dashboard! I'm having the dealership fire the salesguy and promise to deliver a new car within a week or I'll cancel the order for the Hummer as well.
August 4, 2004
Quit Google. Joined the World Poker Tour.
Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google.
Monday, May 10, 2004
Going out of our way to find the right people.
When we announced the opening of our engineering office in Zurich, a lot of Europeans seemed pleased about the possibility of working for Google without a commute to California. Zurich draws Italians, French, Swiss, Germans, and other Europeans, and is easier to reach from most parts of the continent than the Amphitheatre Parkway exit off highway 101.
Interestingly, when we announced our engineering center in Bangalore, we found ourselves knee-deep in the debate about "outsourcing" -- the practice of cutting a company's American operations in favor of cheaper labor elsewhere. India in particular has been a subject of a lot of press coverage on this topic lately, which we find to be pretty unfair. It's not their fault they have a lot of brilliant computer scientists who don't care to relocate to the States.
We recognize that talented engineers live in every time zone, not just Silicon Valley. That's fine with us, because when it comes to solving technical problems Google benefits from global perspectives, as well as a diversity of languages and working hours. We're not shipping jobs overseas, we're accommodating people we want to hire who don't feel like uprooting their lives, even for Charlie's cooking.
So, if you're looking for a place to plug into Google, we're trying to make it easy for you. We're looking for talented software engineers, top programmers and visionary computer scientists to tackle everything from distributed systems and information retrieval to algorithms, UI, and scalability challenges. And of course to unplug the lava lamps occasionally so they don't overheat.
So, whether you're in the market for a challenging engineering position in Mountain View or our new Tokyo office, or somewhere really out of this world, we hope you'll look us up.
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You do realise that you don't have to read a particular LiveJournal don't you? Nothing is forced down your throat. How on earth does this ruin things?
;)
If you are using LiveJournal to read entries of random people from randomCity() ranting about randomSubject(), then you are completely missing the point. I read LiveJournals of my friends (or possibly, some random person if I've found them to be particularly interesting, but certainly not people I find to be boring) - if you have friends, you should read their LiveJournals
It would be like saying Slashdot is a load of crap, because who wants to read a load of boring (geek|nerd) "tossers" ranting on about random things.
Fortunately, the technology regarding journals is good
Yes, as you say yourself, the technology is good, and this is independant of what people use it for. When people use LiveJournal to document technical things (as some people do), how does that fit into your view of blogs and journals?
I wonder if they will write about their daily yummy free lunches that are served at google?
If anything, a free lunch is a good reason to work there!
I read all blogs via RSS reader - no time to check 200+ pages daily.
If you are reading 200+ blogs, I think you have more that enough time to spare.
-Colin