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Recently I was composing an email in gmail and - like I sometimes do - decided to press the discard button and not send the email. But not before gmail indicated that it had saved my message. After I discarded the email, I checked my "Drafts" to see if it showed up there. No, as I expected. But where do they go? Anywhere? Are they in some kind of Google never-never land? And more important: are they retrievable when someone comes to Google with a court order for someone's emails? Are they stored but Google doesn't release them because technically they are not email? Might they be of value, perhaps revealing information someone had decided was too hot to send in an email? These things are not clear from gmail's Privacy Policy Notice and Google's broader Privacy Policy . And no, I wasn't concerned about any of my own discarded emails. :-)

The Wired Campus is reporting ( Librarians Accuse Google of Using and Discarding Them ) how the ire of librarians with respect to Google appears to be cresting (again). This time I think it is more serious: some fairly strong words are being written: How Google Used Librarians…and Got Away With It Google punked us Google Gone Happy Birthday, Google Librarian Central! Good and Evil in the Garden of Digitization OM blog - Google Ignores Medical Librarians How Google used librarians Google Librarian Central has a 7 month summer break? Google Librarian Central - How many of us will it take? Google Librarian Central "Summer Break" Now 298 Days Google and Librarians When Google’s the library, who’s the librarian?

Nanaimo is the future. Get used to it. Where can I sign up to get a GPS so I can track my dogs ? Nanaimo has been uber -mapped by Google, and everything from firetrucks to the grass-cutting machines have GPS in them, recording location and time telemetry into Google's Big Database in the Sky (tm). And yes, you dead people aren't safe from this either: Nanaimo will be making available to Google the database of who-is-buried-where , so you may also have some extra visitors! :-)