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This is an interesting idea, but I'm not super clear on what happens to the posts after they're written. Do you have a separate blog for people to look at and associate with the company, or do you have an internal-only blog for the posts?

Do you ever worry about image problems from opinions posted in PBH posts -- especially here in Japan?

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Oh: we have Tim, our resident blog editor, review the posts and tidy them up, then schedule them for during the week. We share the posts so we can all have a look before they go up.

Image problems in Japan? Not yet... we're not super careful at the moment but we're also pretty sensible people too.

I have to say, the more I think about this, the better an idea it is. I want to go back and read your blog posts as they come up, and while I may never use myGengo, the blog posts mean that you have a way to take mindspace with me and I'll be more likely to say "myGengo" when someone has a translation project I can't handle personally...

>PBH Nice!

Yeah I am pretty happy about the fact that I got an acronym

A more free-form way of getting those posts out is setting up a Planet (http://www.planetplanet.org) that aggregates the blog posts from everyone in the company. This is very common among open source companies and communities. Although Planets are generally different than what is being proposed in the article which I guess is more about having all developers writing posts for the company's official blog.

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