I had planned to attend Have “They” Gone Too Far? The medical and political implications of attacks on reproductive health care, including Colorado’s Amendment 48. Cecile Richards, President Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Nancy Keenan, President NARAL Pro-Choice America, Dr. Eliza Buyers, MD, Obstetrician – Gynecologist, and Dr. Ruben Alvero, MD, Obstetrician – Gynecologist, Certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility were scheduled to appeared.
I dropped off the kids at school, drove downtown, parked and started walking towards the Big Tent. Then I realized I left my pass at home and there was no way to get into the tent. So I had to drive back home, get my pass, and rush back. An hour wasted and 65 more miles on the car.
Not a problem as prochoiceamerica taped the panel and downloaded it on YouTube:
I did make it back to see Townhall on the Internet and Politics with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google with Eric Schmidt , CEO of Google, Inc
and Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Air America Radio. (You can view the video on YouTube.)
Voting: Google putting voter registration and polling location info on the Internet. Rachel Maddox believes that voter registration has become a partisan issue.
Privacy: Trade off between cool stuff (Google calendar, chat, email, reader, docs) vs. privacy. Google believes it has the best privacy policy of all its competitors and only keeps personal data for 18 months.
Other things that Google is doing:
- Google has a green initiative.
- Google analyzes its hiring practices to detect biases in hiring women, harder for people of color (smaller data set).
- Google is very concerned that Americans have less access to broadband services and wireless data networks.
Finally, Rachel Maddox made an interesting observation in using Google's online news. It's so targeted that you're not informed about things you didn't know you needed to know.
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