Google Corporate Blog Criticized By Google Employee
I'm a few days behind on my feeds (why do we have to work to pay the rent?) but this is interesting enough to write about anyway. Chris Wetherell, an UI Engineer at Google, doesn't like his company's corporate blog -- especially not in comparison with their competitors' blogs. He writes:
The Google Blog hasn't caught up yet. It's a surprising mis-representation - the culture we work in is fast, decisive, and colloquial but the blog voice is stiff. It's your not-so-cool uncle unbuttoning his shirt, listening to The Postal Service (but only the single of Such Great Heights) and proclaiming that Yeah, I totally dig your stuff you kids, this hip-hop speaks to me too. Um. Dogg. *flashes hang ten sign*.Since it's been out there for more than a week, I guess we would have heard if he's been reprimanded in any way. Not that I think he should be. First of all, I think he's right. Second, this is what you might get with a corporate blog. Live with it. This honesty is what blogs, to me, are all about.