OK, I don't know what I find more disturbing - that corporate (North) America controls and wields an inordinate amount of power and influence, or the fact that they use it for unknown, or perhaps even nefarious, purposes.
In my last post, I had written about various places and organizations that can help, if you're choosing to buy independent, local and ethical foodstuffs to eat. I had written about how several large corporations have taken over most of the control and supply of a lot of food that we consume. I had also implied that this massive control over our food supply is NOT a great idea.
Do you know what? Some of these corporations have ALREADY visited that blog posting that mentioned their names. Somehow they managed to find my blog posting, without doing a search, and ended straight up on the blog post.
THIS IS DISTURBING. They somehow have the ability to search and find anything, even innocuous little blog posts like mine...
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Know what's funny...that's actually part of my job. "Media monitoring" - we have programs that help us monitor the internet for mentions of our clients in the news or blogs.
So, how did you know that these corporations visited your site? Did they leave a comment or something?
Actually, they probably do that just in case someone is sending out false rumors and such. It's pretty big among software companies, where as if you blog about doing something illegal to a Microsoft product, you'll get a legal notice within 12 hours of posting.
Ahh, but there is also the issue that if corporations are doing this, besides whether ppl are sending false rumours out, is for what other purposes... I suspect part of it is also for marketing purposes, to figure out how consumers/bloggers are feeling about their particular company... if, such as in this post, I feel that corporations are giving a bad shake to farmers, that may help change their marketing strategy to appear much more pastoral, much more 'integrated' into the environment and community... would this actually change any of their fundamental business practices? No, actually. It would only affect how they are perceived by the consumer, not the actual ethos and functioning of the company itself...
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