A Few Questions for Mini-Microsoft

I admire the blogging of Who da' Punk, the anonymous, Microsoft employee/blogger behind the controversial and popular Mini-Microsoft blog. I've written about him at The Blogging Journalist. Until now, my only concern was that he doesn't post often enough to satisfy my desire to know what's going on inside Microsoft.

On May 13, 2006, I read an informative, September 26, 2005 BusinessWeek Online Extra on Mini--that's what he's generally called-- that explains why he chose to risk being fired by using a blog to criticize his employer. While I'm impressed by Mini's explanation for why he's crusading to turn Microsoft into a slimmed down "lean, mean, efficient customer pleasing profit making machine!," I was struck by this passage in "A Rendezvous With Microsoft's Deep Throat":

And he admits to a little misdirection on his blog, posting random details of work and personal life that are false, just to throw would-be hound dogs off his scent.

Mini, if this is true, are you still posting "random details of work and personal life that are false"? If so, why?

How can I tell what's true and what's false? What was false in the past? Aren't you concerned about losing credibility with your readers?

Finally, did BusinessWeek reporters Jay Greene and Heather Green get this right?

Note: This post first appeared in The Weblog Gazette, my "Weblog on Technology and Subjects Not Fit for The Diplomatic Times Review and The Blogging Journalist."