it took me a while to realize that there were similarities between the blogs i'm following and the NYTimes. the reason is that they are fundamentally different, one is a blog, the other a newspaper. Because of this it was hard for me to find similarities between them. but once i found a few it made it a lot easier.

since one of my blogs was all about technology i tried to find similarities between the different stories it and the NYTimes had. one thing i found was that there are a lot of stories on google. there's a new one everyday if not just every week.

one story in particular i want to mention (story about Google in case this next part doesn't give it away) is about china being upset about Google books for some scans of Chinese books. china claims that the scans are in violation of international copyright standards. sometime after i read this story on the NYTimes i found another story on ArsTechnica. this one was about Google books and how it has been battling the publishing industry since it started. at one point it was accused of copyright infringement because it was scanning copyrighted books and putting them online for anyone to view for free. and now Google has a hearing with the European union.

at first glance these stories might not seem to be connected but in fact they are. not only are they both about Google but they also deal with Google books and copyright infringement. the first deals specifically with a case of china objecting to scans made by Google for Google docs. the other is about problems Google has and is having with copyright infringement.

it just goes to show that even though stories might seem not to have a connection that doesn't mean that they don't. in fact you could probably take any two stories and find some kind of connection between them, even if it's just a random comment.