Google’s mission is to “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

So, I’m not quite sure where in that statement, “create autonomous robotic cars that drive themselves” quite fits.

Still, that’s not stopped Google from building cars that, yes, drive themselves.

Our automated cars use video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to “see” other traffic, as well as detailed maps (which we collect using manually driven vehicles) to navigate the road ahead. This is all made possible by Google’s data centers, which can process the enormous amounts of information gathered by our cars when mapping their terrain.

So far, the cars have logged more than 140,000 miles, including such trips as…

When you read reports about Internet usage, smartphone adoption and technology use in general you are often led to believe that this is a young person’s game. As a recent study covered in an article from AdAge points out, how you define an older Internet user is probably the most important part of understanding just how much they are online and accessible.

Marilynn Mobley has a desktop at work, a laptop at home, a netbook for travel, an Android smartphone and just last week she bought an iPad. She time shifts all her TV viewing using DVRs and enjoys watching Blu-ray movies at home. She’s also 63 years old.

Ms. Mobley is a strategic counselor for Edelman in its Boomer Insights Generation Group.

There are many images of walls in history and they are usually not the best things. When they are destroyed, however, there is celebration and progress. There was President Reagan’s famous call at the Brandenburg Gate of the Berlin Wall “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”. From the pop culture side of things, Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” paints a picture of the self-destructive behavior that happens when walls are constructed to keep the outside where it supposedly belongs: outside.

So what’s this have to do with Internet marketing? I contend that it has everything to do with how the industry conducts itself and the damage that it is doing in the process.

Today, I am proud to present to you my interview with the one and only Copyblogger, Brian Clark. If you aren’t familiar with Brian, then welcome to the internet! Since launching his widely popular blog in 2006, Brian has become a force within Internet Marketing. He and his blog have been listed on the top of some of the most prestigious lists in the industry. Brian has developed and marketed several very successful products and continues to be an entrepreneur that is on the cutting edge of both marketing and social media.

So without further ado I present my interview with Mr. Copyblogger himself: