Somasegar: Let's put it this way. Sometimes when I write a blog, to make sure that I am saying the right thing from a technical perspective, I go to a program manager or a developer and say, hey, look at it and make sure that I am not giving some wrong information. So to that extent, if you call that filtering, then that's filtering. But other than that, no.

InfoWorld: There's nobody coming in and saying, you can't talk about Orcas or whatever?

Somasegar: No. People say, what are the blogging guidelines? Tell me what I can do and what I can't do. And to me the answer is simple: Use your common sense. You know that we are in the business of developing software and delivering software. To the extent that you think you want to share information in a way that people can understand the context and give you feedback, go do that. It's very hard to say, no, thou shall do this or thou shalt not do this. I say, use your common sense and all the right things will happen. So that's what I follow myself as well.

InfoWorld: What type of responses have you gotten to your blogs?

Somasegar: The interesting thing about blogging, and the reason I fortunately spend some time on blogging every week or every other week, is because you get some unsolicited great feedback from people around the world. It's not necessarily anymore from Seattle or the United States. People send me feedback and sometimes it is, hey, this is great stuff. And sometimes [it's] hey, why aren't they thinking about this? And sometimes, what are you doing? This is lousy. Right?