After reading Ars Technica’s speculation on what all Google Base might do, I think I have an idea for what I’d use it for: export of tour date information for the indie sites I’m (very, very slowly) building. If the idea is to leverage and get your data in Google’s hands easily—and that’s one thing it could be useful in doing—then by all means, I’ll pump the data into their hands. But I’ll still own it on my end, too.

It’s all speculation, though, until they actually launch and enough geeks read the stuff to figure out what it’s good for…