Google Trends has landed
Well, everyone's talking about Google Trends, so I may as well note that it's got a lot of folks here very excited. Take a look at this result for 'whaling', the big spikes are more or less centered on the IWC meetings, which are extremely dull meetings, where extremely important stuff gets decided amid diplomatic arm twisting, bribery and threats. We're there of course, lobbying, informing, discussing and drawing attention.
The smaller hump toward the end of every year is when the Japanese whaling fleet sets off and in 2005 when we also set off to confront it in the oceans. I'm not sure what this means for the various campaigns, but the sight of eyes lighting up around various departments as we showed this to people suggests that this is all going to prove very useful indeed.