PBS Rules

With the corporate media conglomerates leading last nights evening "news" with the death of Farrah Faucet and Michael Jackson (and covering nothing else), I breathed a sigh of relief when the News Hour lead with the Supreme Court ruling on strip searches, the Cap & Trade bill, questions about Bank of America, health care reform and Iran.

While I too, have fond memories of "The King of Pop" (I had a huge crush on him when I was a little girl), I don't consider his death worthy of an entire "news" broadcast. Entertainment news sure, but not the news that creates informed citizens and a strong democracy.

Which brings me to the real point of this post — a post on Google's "Blogger." Do you really know what this company is doing with all the information you give them? Once again PBS helped remind me of the implications of putting my "life" in Googles data banks. WGVU re-ran the excellent 2006 BBC production "The World According to Google"on Wednesday night. A very eye-opening look at how the company stores all data (including emails) — not to mention the mapping technology and satellite images — and what the potential of having so much information in the hands of one company means. I highly recommend it — whether or not you're a blogger out here or have a gmail account.