One of my favorite personal blog posts is about not trapping users’ data. In late 2006, Eric Schmidt declared “We would never trap user data.” Many of the major Google properties (search, Gmail, Calendar) make it trivial to export or download your data.

Last spring’s Daylight Savings Time post is increasing my current daily blog traffic by over 500%. Reason? Three of them, actually: 1.) Daylight savings time is near an end 2.) Everyone is googling the term to figure out which exact day that end is gonna fall on. 3.) The search engines aren’t differentiating between beginning and end when discussing Daylight Saving Time.