Last week's hubbub about Google's side products (sparked by BusinessWeek's story "So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits") culminated in a much-buzzed-about piece by Microsoft blogger Don Dodge, called "Google a one trick pony?" To Don's credit, his actual post was balanced, but his headline set hotter heads spinning and blogging their own "Google is dead" pieces.
Rule #1 of regrettable blogging: Anything you take down will be posted somewhere else. EBay employee Rogelio Choy will learn that the hard way when his trash-talking post about Google Checkout makes the rounds. Here's a snippet from the blogged, deleted, and posted-elsewhere entry:
Ex-Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble, who rocked the tech news world when he left for podcast company PodTech two weeks ago, linked to the real estate tour page for his for-sale Seattle-area home. Now, with the Power of the Internets, everyone can see that Scoble and his wife Maryam prefer those furry toilet lid covers. Scoble might even throw in the high-def TV, he wrote.
The Sun Microsystems CEO is blogging, Bill Gates is talking on podcasts, and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban tells reporters to check his blog. It's an age where company heads face their critics and fans directly — for better or worse.
PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak follows up the "How I bait Mac users" video (which whipped bloggers into a frenzy) with an "I'm sorry, I'm flabbergasted" column. Now Dvorak says that his baiting trick only worked three times in his career — and that he's amazed how many people blew up at this video.
Blogger Om Malik's decision to go full-time and raise seed money (a story broken on Valleywag) is all over the blogosphere today. His tech blog GigaOM broke the 5,000 rank on Alexa (putting him at anywhere from 20k to 80k views a day) while he was still working full-time for Business 2.0. What could the man do for GigaOM with 40 hours a week and a million bucks?
All I heard this weekend was:
