Google may not be taking over the world, but it's taking over my computer… and I like it! Their latest innovation is a new email/IM/social-networking hub called Google Wave.
Cities and towns across the country sent in their pleas to Google last month, requesting to be one of the trial locations where the company will test its new ultra-high speed broadband network.
What's going on with funding for the Peace Corps? Nearly a year ago, several news reports noted that the Peace Corps was being funded through a continuing resolution. But a Google news search doesn't turn up anything recent. This is from a Huffington Post piece last February:
Late last month Marketplace Money did a story on "hauls," online video diaries about the junk people buy. Call me a Luddite, but that makes me want to cuddle up with Tolstoy's War and Peace. If you have a different reaction it might be because you--like so many savvy entrepreneurs in the information age--are seeing dollar signs where others might see cultural decline.