Author: gregoryheller

A followup to my post last night about the effect of “watching the meter” on power consumption. Today’s NYT ran a front page story on a project in Chicago to give rate payers hourly electricity cost information. According to the article, those in the program are using less energy at peak times reducing overall peak…

This was an interesting week in the New York Times. Thursday’s House and Home featured a cover story about home solar (photo voltaic) installations mostly in NY and California where tax incentives encourage home owners to add solar panels.

I just read of Charles Leadbeater’s book project, We-Think on World Changing. Leadbeater and his publisher have pre-released his book about new forms of collaboration and organization. From the introduction:

At CivicActions we know all about open WiFi networks, and I often get asked by friends about “internet security” and specifically, how secure their activities are when they are on open networks. David Pogue covered the issue in his column today. While he believes his wifi traffic is not worth snooping (“Frankly, I consider the…

Bruce Byfield wrote a nice article for Linux.com about the work of our client, the Free Software Foundation in this past year including the DefectiveByDesign campaign.

Just saw an email from Matt Thompson up in Canada (met him at

After about a week we are back. Our site is now upgraded, and we’ll be blogging again!

The CivicActions blog is taking a short break. We should be back in time for the holidays!

On saturday I attended RootsCampNYC, and unconference dedicated to debriefing on the elections with a decidedly technological flavor. I shot some video with a Samsung SC-210 digital video camera (that I am returning tomorrow because it doesn’t play well with Mac despite what the box says.) The video above is a short interview with Sanford…