While I’m sure Yahoo! is not happy that Zawodny, a high-level employee, is blogging on the anti-spam benefits of gMail, Zawodny has free reign, for the most part, to give out his honest opinions.
Now, when I see him give a glowing review of Yahoo!’s RSS integration I’ll be more likely to believe him.
Of course, in [...]

Candid disagreements, as long as they are not constant, lend credibility to a bloggers passionate defense of your company. If a blogger is not allowed to disagree, they’ll always write with fear of the axe and the transparency you crave will not be apparent, because it won’t exist.
MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE ROBERT SCOBLE PUBLICLY excoriated [...]