March 2009

Greentech Media Asks, Will Utilities or Customers Lead in Smart Grid?

Electricity, Regulation / By

Michael Giberson Greentech Media has an interesting short article asking whether utilities or customers will take the lead in smart grid deployment. They suggest the answer is “a little of both.” Venture capitalist Gerd Goette says that investors do worry about getting out ahead of utilities when pursuing projects. A smart-grid component that can’t communicate …

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Becoming a Pull Organization, or an Industry of Pull Organizations

Complexity, Economics / By

Lynne Kiesling I really like this HBS blog post called The Case for Institutional Innovation from John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davidson. In it they argue that future organizations are more likely to be “pull organizations”: Pull-based institutions are those that bring the force of attraction to bear on tens or even hundreds …

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Walk Score: Comparing My New and Old Neighborhoods

1 Comment / Miscellany, Networks / By

Michael Giberson At the Freakonomics blog they mentioned Walk Score, a website that will calculate walk-ability for an address based on number of nearby stores, parks, and other useful places.  They admit that there scoring formula doesn’t get everything, but it did a reasonable job comparing my new address in Lubbock, Texas and my old …

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Reiham Salam on the Angelheaded Hipsters at Sxsw Interactive

Education, Liberty, Miscellany, Technology / By

Michael Giberson At The Atlantic‘s business blog, Reiham Salam invokes sci-fi author Vernor Vinge as he contemplates the meaning of what he saw at the SXSW Interactive Festival, but his post put me more in mind of these famous opening lines: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, …

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FERC’s Smart Grid Policy Statement

Electricity, Regulation / By

Michael Giberson FERC has posted it’s proposed smart grid policy statement and invited comments (comments due 45 days after the statement is published in the Federal Register).  FERC offers this summary: This proposed policy statement and action plan provides guidance to inform the development of a smarter grid for the Nation’s electric transmission system focusing …

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