I just did a quick read through all my feeds and, boy, are people down on Guy Kawasaki’s “Truemors” site. Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests says that celebrity is how it might succeed.

Indeed, it’s because Guy Kawasaki was involved that I checked it out in the first place.

My reaction? I agree with Shelley Powers when she says: “What is [Truemors]? It’s the site that made Twitter look good, by comparison.”

Of course, there’s no such thing as bad PR on the blogosphere. Well, except silence. That’s the most damning thing of all.

Microsoft had a wave of blog backlash over the past week, part of it due to quotes attributed to Bill Hilf, who a General Manager of Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Today he clarified his quotes and says “I’m sure there’s also a lot of questions about the Fortune story on ‘Microsoft versus the Free world’ – more wonderful sensationalism – and I will write on that soon.”

This is a great use of blogs. I remember Dave Winer telling me it’s one of the reasons he started his blog: to talk directly to people after his words were misquoted/misconstrued/misunderstood by the press.

I just put up the video I shot a few weeks ago of Mark Richards, who just released a new coffee table picture book, Core Memory — he did the photography, John Alderman did the text. All photos of computers in the Computer History Museum. He spent two years working on the book. We filmed the interview in the museum, looking at the book, and talking about how he made the images. Photographers will love this one.

It’s a great book and one that any geek would love to have on their coffee table.

Non photographers will love my video and the book too, because both give you a really interesting look at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

UPDATE: wild, BoingBoing did a post on it today too with a lot more details and Mark Richards’ site is here.

Thanks to Shannon Clark for the picture of me holding the book — he’s in the video toward the end too.

I have brought my video camera to the Computer History Museum before back when I worked at Microsoft. Here I got a tour of the museum with famous technologist Gordon Bell (Part I and Part II)

UPDATE2: If you don’t have time for the long video, here’s a shorter “Editor’s Choice.”