Lynne Kiesling Sitting here at O’Hare, 6 AM … today’s A Word A Day word is encaustic: encaustic (en-KO-stik) adjective A method of painting using pigments with wax fixed onto the surface by heat. [From Latin encausticus, from Greek enkaustikos, from enkaiein (to burn in), from en- + (kaiein) to burn. Some distant cousins of …
Lynne Kiesling Last night the KP Spouse and I went to Fidelio at the Lyric Opera. I have been looking forward to it for a long time, because I really like Beethoven. Unlike Lucy in Room With A View, who says that her mother asks her not to play Beethoven because it makes her peevish, …
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Lynne Kiesling Institutional change is a slow process, rife with inertia, rent seeking, status quo bias, and transaction costs. Ray Gifford commented yesterday on an illustration of inertia: the persistence of “face value” on concert tickets. Ray tells of dissatisfaction with U2’s fan club pre-sale of concert tickets, wonders why tickets still even have “face …
Lynne Kiesling To continue Mike’s comments, and perhaps to illustrate the point of the article, Ed Driscoll has an article in Tech Central Station today about Chris Anderson’s “long tail” meme. One of the things that I found interesting in this article is when Driscoll points out that the tail is more influential than you …
Lynne Kiesling Over at Crooked Timber, Eszter Hargittai has a post on using social network modeling to make movie, music and book recommendations. I am particularly intrigued by social network modeling, especially the work of Duncan Watts. In addition to analyses of tastes, relationships, organizational structure, etc., I think it may be useful in thinking …
Lynne Kiesling On Friday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released a staff report on reactive power. This extensive and thoughtful report is a useful contribution to advancing the policy debate about institutions governing the electric power network in a changing and increasingly distributed and market-oriented environment. This report digs down into the technical and economic …
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Lynne Kiesling Apple Mini computers have been flying off the shelves, and in fact they have sold out of their entire first production run already. Apparently (although I hve not been able to verify this from any news sources), some individuals have bought many Minis and are reselling them on eBay, taking advantage of the …
Your intrepid KP authors are up to the proverbial eyeballs in duties for the day jobs. Apologies for the lull. But this means interesting things are soon to come …
Lynne Kiesling The California PUC has directed the three investor-owned utilities in the state under its jurisdiction to develop critical peak pricing plans for summer 2005. From a Los Angeles Times article, The California Public Utilities Commission directed the state’s three investor-owned utilities, including Edison International’s Southern California Edison Co., to install special meters and …
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Lynne Kiesling When I saw the front-page article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about merger talks between SBC and AT&T, my first thought was, well, we are far, far away from 1984! Who’d a thunk 20 years ago that this would happen? SBC Communications Inc. is in talks to acquire AT &T Corp., a …
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