Eat your own dog food, they said

So they set up a pedestal for Page and Brin. (Google bought Blogger sometime back, in case you've been holed out in your cliffside armageddon shelter since Dec '99.)

It's an informal way of communicating with users, and it sure beats spamming the hell out of them - those who want to read it will read it, and those who don't remain blissfully ignorant. Microsoft has something along those lines in play as well. Just a matter of time before the brighter companies get their own channels started up. Think "open-door concept".

What I'd really like to see on Google's blog are opinions posted by and attributed to people working there, not the anonymous company-entity news/PR spiel that they have running in the first couple of posts. Then again, if they'd hire me to unplug overheating lava lamps in the Tokyo office, I wouldn't care all that much about who posts what. ;]

Edit: Apparently a post on Google's blog was significantly edited to remove a comment about Indian outsourcing. Prudent, considering the uproar over GMail's privacy issues when it was announced.