Day: April 2, 2006

Cool stuff for developers over on Scott’s blog

Scott Guthrie is a general manager at Microsoft. One thing I like is his blog. It's been getting more and more popular with developers over the past few months. In the past couple of weeks he's been blogging up a storm with fun stuff for developers, here's a sample:

Maryam was just watching me type this post out and says she likes Scott (she hosts Webcasts for MSDN). "Why?" I ask. "He always answers his email," she answers. She also says that two weeks ago Scott held a Webcast that had the most attendees they've ever had (about 1,000 people watching live, 5,500 registered but it turns out that the technology they are using, LiveMeeting, can only handle about 1,250 attendees if there's desktop sharing going on).

Back to blogging my real life

Since it's now April 2 in most of the rest of the world it's time to get back to reality. Sorry to Stephen Toub for helping the world get a little crazy over the past few hours. Yeah, Nick Carr, April Fools Day did jump the shark.

But, my day as head of Google's PR was fun. Hope I didn't cause too many ruffled feathers over there. I can only take fighting one company a week! Heheh.

On a more serious note, Rebecca MacKinnon continues her tracking of what's going on on the Chinese blogs and points today to Nina Wu, sister of the detained filmmaker and blogger Hao Wu.

You know, if the worst thing that happens to me is I get some pointed questions that I didn't answer well from a CTO of a public company, or get some nasty personal comments, then I am very fortunate. In many places in the world writing your thoughts can get you killed or thrown in jail. Or worse.

When people ask "does blogging matter?" I'll just answer "well, if it doesn't, then why is the Chinese government throwing people in jail because of their blogs?"

PS, tomorrow I'll change the time on my server to match Pacific Time instead of European time.