Lynne Kiesling I am listening to the WOXY Lounge Acts live right now with Jukebox the Ghost, and they are awesome! I have heard their song “Hold It In” a few times, and it’s catchy and engaging. They are about to release an album, and you can listen to their tunes on their webpage. Check …
Lynne Kiesling Today’s New York Times has an article describing the results of the GridWise Olympic Peninsula Project, the year-long smart grid research project on price-responsive household technology, dynamic electricity pricing, and consumer behavior in which I participated: The demonstration project was as much a test of consumer behavior as it was of new technology. …
Michael Giberson The NCAA basketball season is well underway, and soon enough March Madness will be here. Do you have your brackets worked out yet? Last year while working out a few thoughts on arbitrage opportunities in basketball tournament prediction markets at Inkling, it occurred to me that the Inkling pricing mechanism was just a …
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Michael Giberson The Salt River Project, a central Arizona public power utility serving almost a million consumers, already charges it’s customers higher rates in the summer, but they are proposing to increase their summer rates even more. The Arizona Republic reports: Salt River Project wants to prompt more people to conserve during the hottest hours …
Michael Giberson Tom Fowler of the Houston Chronicle reports: Only one of five applications to build an Alaskan natural gas pipeline will move on to a public comment period, Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday. The application from pipeline giant TransCanada met or exceeded all the state’s requirements for the massive project, Palin said, while applications …
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Lynne Kiesling Ugh … so the KP host lost a disk, which is why we’ve been unreachable for the past few hours … Through the miracle of the RSS feed I was able to reconstruct the three posts from this morning, since the last backup, but I was unable to reconstruct the three comments on …
Lynne Kiesling Note also the Popular Mechanics CES Blog; Popular Mechanics has sent KP friend Glenn Reynolds to the CES to report on what he finds there.
Lynne Kiesling The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off today in Las Vegas, and at least at a marketing level it’s going green: Gadget makers are joining a green movement sweeping the corporate world, a new theme at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Vendors plan to display products such as biodegradable PCs and solar-powered cellphone …
Michael Giberson Not often does a paper from the American Economic Association meetings make the news, but on Friday a paper by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitzewitz was presented about prediction markets at Google. This morning Noam Cohen at the New York Times reports: A question never addressed in the report is what …
Lynne Kiesling Thoughts today on productivity instead of economics, energy, technology … I am in the middle of a run of about 5 Project-Kill Days trying to get the albatross of a book manuscript off of the to-do list. Project-Kill Day is a great idea for me, as my biggest personal foible is my inability …
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