#35: Ray Ozzie blogs again

f-in a, after reading that memo of his this is one blog I am definitly going to subscribe to. i hope he’s like you scoble and posts a few times a day. it’s sad when you know of a great blog yet the poster only puts content up a few times a month.

How come his space doesn’t have any ad’s and looks better than all the other spaces out there, is this a premium service or does he just have the convinence since he is the CTO

Ray’s in a tough corner – either he’s too abstract and loses relevancy, or he doesn’t post at all because being specific means exposing direction and strategy.

I wish him well with the blog – he’s fun to read…but I need to temper my expectations.

Hi Robert

Since I had trouble getting your email address I just wanted to check you got my email about the new craze of pixel advertising – all the way from Scotland?!

Cheers, Jessica

I went over and visited his blog, it looks great ! I wish I could get that custom backround!

Oh brother, he said no marketingese speak, but then goes if Spaces works for “25 million other bloggers” and does 2 Virtual Earth links and uses buzzwordy groaner phrases like “catalyze and deliver” and “link mesh of conversation” and then the usual Microsoft stay-tuned hype of “fun little projects”. Groove living on within Office? Hahahah, that I’d like to see, more likely dying off into just another Office feature commodity, that no one will end up using.

25 million is the new Spaces numbers? Gawd. How come it increases 15 million in 3 weeks? I heard 10 million from a biggie Softie blogger not just a month ago. I don’t, and never have, buy into the Spaces “accounting”, nearly worse than the “eyeballs” of 1999. A heavy software guy like Ozzie being happy with a blog with a teenage-target audience? (You can’t believe that if you even divorce self from reality). Ironically, it’s fitting, Ozzie acting like a wild-eyed screaming teenage-girl, just instead of the hot boy-band, Ozzie’s crush is all things Microsoft.

But here’s how it will go: 2-3 weeks posting flurry, with 2-3 months silence, 1 week posting and apologies, with random bits fluffed in to add Press Release impact.

Microsoft is in deep deep deep trouble with this guy at the helm. I know several biggie R&D guys (unnamed of course) that are just shaking their heads (there is a whole back channel, easy to tap into), I predict a real brain-drain exodus, if Ozzie decides to force his Web 2.0 voodoo down the collective throats of some of the real luminaries.

Scoble – cool that Ray’s started blogging again. Nice.

Even better if he switched his comments on. Write Only blogging is what we get from the MS Press release department.

I mean – you at least give the *hope* that someone is actually taking note of this stuff within MS (all without actually answering questions, of course. We mere mortals know our place…)

Its a huge shame of course, for Dan Lyons. He did that huge “Attack of the Blogs” thing on Forbes.com a few weeks back.

And since Dan Lyons and Forbes are really big fans of Microsoft, I thought *someone* might have mentioned Ray would start blogging again.

That Forbes article now makes him and Forbes.com look extraordinarily stupid…

Just a thought.

—* Bill