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In spite of the undeniable improvements that Google brings to this new connected age, I struggle to accept the cost vs. benefit of trusting them with my data.

Even with their recent entries into the renewable energy space, it still worries me that “organizing the world’s data” includes making money off any bread-crumbs I happen to leave in the Google cloud, including but not limited to my private email or RSS reading habits.

This post by Jessica Hagy at Indexed captures my fear pretty succinctly.
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Global Warming vs. Climate Change search trends

Google Trends show world wide search for “global warming” is heavier than the search for “climate change.” Interesting. Unfortunately, we don’t know the actual number of searches so its hard to draw real conclusions from this. It’s probably safe to say that people are becoming concerned. Link

Blue=Global Warming
Red=Climate Change

Global warming serach trends

New Theme and FAlbum plugin

Tonight I added the Steam theme and the FAlbum Flickr photo plugin. I think it looks better and I’ll appreciate the integration with Flickr for sure.

I also added a link to one of my Squidoo lenses called Mobi. In the Meta section of the side bar. Squidoo is kind of like an all-in-one aggregator of popular web usage models, including RSS, Flickr, tagging, Adsense, linking, ranking. The idea is to create a “Lens” using these various technologies to focus on something that you are an expert in.

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