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By: All Hail Our Google Overlords | Tourism Tide

All Hail Our Google Overlords | Tourism Tide — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:37:44 +0000

[...] recent comment by Stephen Budd raised my awareness about how involved the Internet is becoming in our day to day [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:48:02 +0000

Hi Stephen,

“Mind you, ‘the auto-syncing of our lives directly to the web —often a quiet recording in the background” already occurs via the benign Google!”

It turns out you are right, we are not far from that reality. I found this article at information week that talks about plans the Google has to monitor all activities, including offline.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=TA0SUG4JVAE2EQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=208808510&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

Kind of scary…

By: Stephen Budd

Stephen Budd — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:54:26 +0000

“I find that blogs are most effective when they are not simple ‘reporting’ but add a human editorial view that sparks thought and conversation.”

I fully agree. To my mind, blogs should be more about ‘benefits’ and less about ‘features.’

Mind you, ‘the auto-synching of our lives directly to the web —often a quiet recording in the background” already occurs via the benign Google!