There's an excellent interview with our fearless leader (yup) over at CNET, except for them misspelling the word 'weblog:'
"As it does for thousands of people who use the Web logging (or blogging) tool to publish online, Blogger enables Google employees to update personal pages within seconds to the company intranet."Read on...---
"We're all about giving anyone a voice, and Google's all about finding out what's important on the Web by what people link to and what people say."