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So here it is. The first in the long awaited series of podcasts from the NTEN NTC conference. I'm sorry that they have taken me so long to get underway, I have some good excuses. I have been renovating my apartment and living out of my brother's house with not even a desk to rest…
So i have been talking about Stratellites since i first read about them. Aparently SansWire just unveiled their first craft. The idea behind these things (they are unmanned derrigibles that float above the jet stream in the stratosphere) is that they are way cheaper than satellites, and the that they can be launched quickly and…
My coworker Noel asked me if I knew what [del:FOAF] was. So I began to look it up. FOAF stands for Friend of a Friend and it is a machine readable language for describing identity and relationships on the web. My head is spinning after reading a few articles and visiting a bunch of sites.…
GreenGuide the creator of the Fix It Apple web campaign looks like a great resource of information about environmental issues. I say "looks like" because at every click i am thwarted by "premium membership" screens. And while i recognize that it can't be cheap to run a website like theirs, I would like to…
I am in the process of reading "The Three Pillers of Social Source" . And instead of waiting until the end to blog it (because who knows how long it will take me to get there–I have had the window up in my browser for the last two weeks– I figured I would just start now.
Picked this up from David Geilhufe We think the future is a network of commercial and nonprofit entities that drive an open source community that develops software. We think nonprofits need to: 1. Act faster than they have ever acted before in adopting alien technologies and business models (open source).…
Just read this article about the Grockster / MGM case, really interesting to read the comments of the justices like this "If I started a business now, how do I know how to proceed?" he asked. "If I'm a new inventor, I'm going to get sued right away." from Scalia and…
Zopa: Lending and Borrowing – Gregory Heller's Del.icio.us This is very cool. It is a "company", maybe "investment house" or "broker" fits better, that allows you to make a loan (actually really not make a direct loan) but offer money for borrow on the market. You set your interest rate and you…
"Timing of sleep is genetically determined, whether you're an owl or lark," said Dr. Mark Mahowald, the medical director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center. While most people are a little bit owl or a little bit lark, for others, Dr. Mahowald said, altering sleep habits is "like changing your […
Thomas Friedman writes in the NYTimes sunday about a concept he calls Geo Greening suggesting that the president is squandering an opportunity to take our country and the planet in a more sustainable direction in terms of oil consumption. Great op-ed, among other things he suggests higher gass prices, carbon tax, new nuke plants and…