NYT’s Interactive Waxman-Markey Voting Map
Lynne Kiesling The New York Times has a spiffy interactive map showing all of the House votes from Friday’s Waxman-Markey bill vote, as well as the entire roll call.
Is Either Google or Facebook the Model of the Internet’s Future?
Lynne Kiesling Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, claims that Google’s information and relationship model is top-down, Big Brother, while Facebook’s is bottom up and organic means of creating and gathering information based on social networks. He’s been making this claim quite vocally lately, and this Wired article provides a detailed discussion of the issues raised in …
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Sunday Recipe Post: Lynne’s Perfect Pancakes
Lynne Kiesling I’ve kind of gotten out of the habit of posting about non-economics things (except for the occasional concert report); a couple of years ago I probably paid too much attention to some reader’s snarky comment about it, so I’ve not shared much about cooking, cycling, triathlon, wine, house renovation, etc. since then. Like …
Blog: The Next 100
Lynne Kiesling The Next 100 is an interesting blog from some folks at PG&E; check it out and see what you think. They cover a range of energy, technology, and environment topics that will resonate with readers of Knowledge Problem, Environmental Economics, and the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital. Although they do seem, at least …
Fixing Airport Security
Lynne Kiesling Having just returned from a 1.5-week, three-conference trip, I am having my now-usual visceral reaction to the thought of another airport experience — nausea, which I hope diminishes by the time of my next trip in early August. Thus I’m in violent (irony intended) agreement with a post on Bruce Schneier’s blog today …
Microsoft’s Hohm Joins the Smart Grid Fray
Lynne Kiesling Microsoft announces its new Hohm service: Called “Hohm” (presumably, a play on the combination of “home and “Ohm”), the product will take advantage of smart grid data on energy use when it’s available. Even when it’s not, however, Hohm will allow users to input their own details and share the results of their …
Another Waxman-markey Blemish: Reinforcing the Obsolete Utility Business Model
Lynne Kiesling Over the past few days Josh Blonz at Common Tragedies had a couple of posts (here and here) about the permit allocation issues in the Waxman-Markey bill, and yesterday Tim Haab picked up the conversation thread. They are both focusing on the welfare and efficiency implications of the proposal to allocate permits to …
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A New Paper, and Presenting It at Conferences This Week
Lynne Kiesling My co-author David Chassin and I have a new working paper available at SSRN from the GridWise Olympic Peninsula testbed demonstration project: Beneficial Complexity: A Field Experiment in Technology, Institutions, and Institutional Change in the Electric Power Industry This paper presents and analyzes the results of a recent field experiment in which residential …
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A Bikey Bikey Weekend!
Lynne Kiesling Will soon be outta here, headed west to lovely Bettendorf, Iowa, for this weekend’s Tour of the Mississippi River Valley (TOMRV) bike ride. 106 miles on Saturday, 90 on Sunday. I intend to be back on Sunday to report that I did ride every.dang.mile. There’s a slight chance of rain both days, with …
It’s the End of the School Year …
Lynne Kiesling … replete with its reminder of the old aphorism, which I believe is completely accurate: we teach for free, but get paid to grade. Grading, grading, grading, awash in blue books. Trying to avoid being lured into the procrastination vortices of KP, Twitter, etc. OK, back to work …