Location is Everything

Sometimes the juxtaposition of two unrelated ideas accidentally begets an interesting, new one.

Yesterday, MyBlogLog told me that two different visitors arrived at my site, one from a search engine search on “San Angelo tamale“, and the other from “New York subway turnstyle“. It’s delightful to see such disparate cultures linking to me (however tenuously), and to watch my analytics dash put pins in the map representing tourists from all over the internet.

On the other hand, this morning’s NY Times showcases a thumbsucker on Google’s (so far uneventful) attempts to break into the radio business and an up-close-and-personal on Walmart’s internal investigators — while giving shorter shrift to new data on the income gap between the richest and poorest Americans (it is growing) and to the whistleblower case claiming the federal government deliberately and systematically undercollected royalties from big oil at the expense of U.S. citizens and Native American nations.

Oh well.