We Want Media

Google announced on their blog last week a new "online home" for their Authors@Google chats, where they talk to authors of recently released books about their work.

"Just this year, we've hosted a great variety of authors, including Martin Amis, Strobe Talbott, Bob & Lee Woodruff, Jonathan Lethem, Don Tapscott, Senator Hillary Clinton, and Carly Fiorina. The subjects of their talks range from literary fiction to science fiction, sociology to technology, politics to business."

In my recollection, this is the first bit of original content Google has offered. Well, aside from the blog itself, which gives an idea of Google's new image, now that the role of the lithe innovator seems so inappropriate.

New Google is Ma and Pa Internet, a place you can stop by for a pie and a chat with Hillary Clinton on the front porch and where new acquisitions are little bundles of joy instead of $1.65 billion, buck fever-inspiring big game.

I wonder, Is Tonic a boy or a girl? What do you get an expectant Google?