Getting sucked in by google

Well I spent a few days transferring the private staff wiki over from our own to google's sites. I'm amazed at how much google are offering. They are definitely trying to provide something useful, unlike a lot of the advertising-based companies.

I just thought I'd give it a try, because we have problems finding someone to look after the scripts (sorry, web apps!) so when something breaks I have to spend ages fixing it and often re-installing, whereas someone who knows what they're doing would only take a short time.

Before I knew it, I had a collaborative wiki with 61 pages, to-do lists, forms, a presentation and was also well into a spreadsheet for making a kml layer gor google earth, showing our project locations. I was also sending out emails and getting others to set up google accounts, which of course is the idea!

Some criticise google, say they are evil and suchlike, but I think they just have the idea that if they provide something worthwhile to the community, then the community will accept their presence and support them. To me that seems fair enough. The bad attitude towards them might be caused by all those other advertising people with a fsck-you attitude, who seem to think the internet was built so that they could advertise on it.

Well, that's what I think anyway.