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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?
PepperHacks - Hacking the Pepper Pad
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.
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 have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -- Hunter S. Thompson
unless he brews his coffee with a Mr. Fusion.
Broogle?
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.
BLING BLING. Meet the architecture that's changing everything.
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.
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. :-)
-Rob
Marriage doesn't have to suck!
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.
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.
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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.
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!
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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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?
Actually, there's also the silent majority to be taken into account also.
There's always a bunch of people who just like to watch out of curiosity. Or, the site keeps up on things that they are interested in. Most people aren't bold, so they don't post.
It would be interesting to see the # of people who read replies vs the # of people who read AND reply.
If the ratio is anything like USENET, I would be surprised if 1 out of 100 readers post something on any given day.
Something to back that up without statistics: Notice that sites often get slashdotted and stay that way before 10 replies have been posted.
This is not a dream, not a dream...we are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9.
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.
"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.
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
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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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