[Note: this is a post from a now defunct blog. I’m repub­lish­ing it because of this recent arti­cle about Google, “Google design­er leaves, blam­ing data-cen­trism”. It is not a defense of what appears to be Google’s data fetishism (but who can blame them?); it just got me thinkin’ …] I want to say that the usu­al…