Sometimes, we need to focus our passion, our anger and our sense of indignation, on what truly counts. For example, our efforts to go after a noontime show host, whose ego has been bloated on a scale that could rival that of the Windows operating system, might be put to use on something much better.

While I fully agree with those who say that most of our TV fare are transforming our TV audiences into an inane people, with IQ levels somewhat only slightly more elevated than those of the amoeba, I believe that we have got bigger issues to worry about. We have got problems that affect us in a much more fundamental way than any insanely egoistic TV host can.

How about demanding from our leaders – government, business, and civic – accountability for things that they have been doing, as they claim, in our name. For our government leaders, let us put them to task for trying their worst to wreck the democracy we have fought for with our lives. For our business leaders, can they have a bigger sense of fairness – can they moderate their drive for profits? And for our civic and religious leaders, can they be truer to their calling as the last resort for a people fighting a government’s despotic ways?

Fierce Loyalty to a Monopoly

Microsoft has made its online search engine one of the best. The software giant has partnered with erstwhile rival Yahoo. Still, market leader Google could barely keep itself from laughing silly at its competitors’ currently futile efforts to grow their puny shares of the online search and advertising markets.

Market research firm comScore said in its latest report on the online search market, the Microsoft-Yahoo partnership needs to offer something that Internet users would see as truly compelling to overcome their “fierce” loyalty to Google. The way things stand right now, Internet users are quite comfortable with Googling for information online.

Overcoming Online Censorship

Despotic governments, including those that are afraid of their citizens, are trying their darnedest best to stifle their peoples’ online voices, and prevent them from accessing online sources of unfiltered news and information.

Reminiscent of some Iron-Wall governments’ previous efforts to keep their citizens from listening to Voice of America broadcasts, these governments’ online censorship efforts tend to keep their citizens in the dark.

The Broadcasting Board of Governors, the American government agency in charge of the Voice of America, said that it is developing an online application capable of transforming Web-based email services, such as Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, into a means of transmitting online news.

This corner hopes that the agency would succeed with its efforts. It is about time that peoples, whose governments are preventing them from hearing about what’s truly going on in their respective countries and in the world, should have unfettered access to online news and information.

That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT and some other things.