Okay, well, he is. But in Valleywag's Top 10 Ballmer-goes-nuts Videos post is a hidden gem.

In the very last video, Steve Ballmer is asked about bloggers and Microsoft's policy about blogging. His response was the sanest thing I've ever heard from an employer:

"We trust our people to represent our company. That's what they're paid to do. And if they don't want to be here, they wouldn't be here. So in a sense you don't run any more risk letting somebody express themselves in a blog than you do letting them go out and meet a customer by themselves anyway. It just reaches more people."

And yet we still see people getting fired for blogging.