UPDATE/retraction (April 2 | 14:48 EDT): So re-reading and re-reading again Rogers' posts, I've realized he was cleverly playing with and playing up both April Fools pranks by Google. It is notable, of course, that Rogers does regularly blog about all things Google on a regular basis and that his posts, dated March 31 shortly before midnight, were not explicitly marked as satirical or as April Fools writeups. My apologies for not double checking.
ZDNet blogger Garrett Rogers appears to have fallen for not one but two April Fools gags by Google. Happens to the best of us, I suppose, but it's still amusing. One had to do with Google offering a broadband Internet access via the toilet, the other with Google offering to snail mail you any and all emails in your account that you want a hard copy of.
As one who briefly believed, but didn't blog about, the Google Paper gag, I'm laughing with you, Garrett.
Speaking of laughing with us, at me, check out MRC's 2007 April Fools Edition of our biweekly Notable Quotables publication.
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Um, Ken, you need to go back and re-read the G-mail paper
April 1, 2007 - 23:56 ET by RJUm, Ken, you need to go back and re-read the G-mail paper. Sometimes, first impressions ARE correct.
Google's Spam Chief Engineer Blog Hacked - LOL:
April 2, 2007 - 00:38 ET by securityHow many people actually fell for the BLOG HACKING of Google's chief of spam - there is a few hours left so it is still up
Like Newsbusters, this one is also on the technorati top 100, so there were alot of surprised SEOs today :-D
I am so out of the loop; I
April 2, 2007 - 03:42 ET by BradzillaI am so out of the loop; I haven't heard of either of these things. On a similar note, I actually have a friend who was really excited about the Bill Gates e-mail tracking software bit recently. She really believed that she was going to get money by forwarding e-mails. This was just a couple months back. I thought everybody knew about that lame hoax by now. Yikes.