The Official Google Blog

Huh. Google’s first post isn’t so stellar. Who’d'a thunk it?

Their first-first post is about a proposal to change how some internet software works. It’s a great first concept, but nothing was done to establish it in the blogosphere. Their real first post, written almost a month later, completely ignores the aforementioned one, and apologizes for Google’s late start to blogging.

I’m not a fan of either.

“A good way to get rid of bad software?” (unofficial first)

“Is this thing on?” (official first)

Six Pixels of Separation

Mitch Joel is a well-known name in both the Canadian and the international marketing scene. His knowledge of and insight about the uses of social media is among the best on the web.

His first post isn’t great, but it’s not terrible, either. An apology of the failings of his old blog, and a promise of new things to come, all short and sweet. I’d give it a Bad-plus: you don’t know what’s coming and you don’t know who Mitch is… but he’s being concise and honest about it.

As a bonus, I’m giving you the link to his first post on his old blog, Multimarketing, as well. It’s more of a sales pitch than anything, but it establishes the fact that he’s a well-read thinker.

“Back from the Blogger” (SPOS)

“Reading” (Multimarketing)

MacRumors

One of two requests coming from choehn, I hunted down the first post of one of the on-line “watercoolers” for Mac lovers (AppleInsider, the older of the two, is going through some database renovations).

Back in 2000, when MacRumors first launched, they seem to have been more focused on news than rumors. Almost any one of the posts on their first live day answers “what just happened,” not “what might happen.” The site is about news and rumours, but I would have hoped they started with a little more “oomph.”

Regardless, their first wasn’t anything to write home about. Bonus points for first-posting on February 29, though.

“Don Crabb dies”

How to Change the World

For such an interesting Guy, Kawasaki’s first post does very little to keep me around. It’s a shame, too, because How to Change the World is a fantastic blog.

Sure: at the time, he was a brand name in the tech world… But that doesn’t give us any reason to listen. College professors are hammered all the time for doing the same thing. I read this and, in spite of my huge amount of respect for the Guy, I cringed at how bland this was.

What saves it from being “The Ugly” is its personal and humble take on the matter of starting a blog. The post that immediately followed it also gives it a couple of points in my books: Guy answers why we should care.

(I’m still reading, though.)

“Better Late Than Arrogant”