Lynne Kiesling At Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow Nine Inch Nails made $750,000 in the first two days of its new album’s online distribution. This is an interesting follow up to my earlier post on the release. Gee, did RIAA get the memo that giving away an album’s worth of songs for free still managed to …
Lynne Kiesling The palpable buzz around the release of the iPhone last year was exciting, and indicated some of the great design and functionality we can expect from mobile phones in the future (even if I won’t get one yet because I won’t give AT&T my business, and I haven’t seen a local vendor selling …
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Lynne Kiesling I haven’t heard as much discussion as there was over Radiohead of Trent Reznor announcing the new Nine Inch Nails album on his website, and offering a variety of versions of it at a variety of price points: The album itself is 36 songs, nearly two and a half hours of music — …
Lynne Kiesling There is no economic model that can support the state buying Wrigley Field. The sports economists have to pay some attention to this one. It all stinks to me of political gambit. Heck, Wrigley sells out most games, and that’s even when the team’s having a crappy year. I am not persuaded by …
Lynne Kiesling While at Wired I noticed their features of some of the technologies from the CleanTech Forum, including this mention of Nanoexa’s nanotechnology battery technology. Nanoexa is using nanotechnology and computational modeling to develop a new lithium energy storage technology. From what I can understand, the computational modeling will enable them to figure out …
Lynne Kiesling I like Wired’s “This Day in Tech” feature. Today’s feature is this day in bridge history: March 4, 1890, the opening of the Forth Bridge across the Firth of Forth, north of Edinburgh in Scotland. Three 330-foot towers went up, each atop four separate foundations. The towers cantilevered out toward one another, not …
Lynne Kiesling This Miami Herald article discusses the large outage earlier this week in Florida, caused by the combination of a substation fire and a switch that was supposed to trip to isolate the substation, but did not. In particular, note the comments from Colorado State University engineering professor, and emeritus GridWise Architecture Council member …
Lynne Kiesling Last week, at the National Electricity Delivery Forum, Kurt Yeager of the Galvin Electricity Initiative issued a challenge to the electricity industry and to regulators to transform the industry, its technology, and its regulation. As reported at The Fuel Cell Market Report, Speaking before an audience of federal and state regulators, utilities and …
Lynne Kiesling Few details yet, but I’m sure this will give us stuff to talk about over the next week: a large power outage in Florida, affecting 3-4 million people. Florida Power & Light representatives officials expect to have the power restored by 5:30, which is pretty quick. But can such a large outage be …
Lynne Kiesling Lots of folks who worry about climate change argue for large-scale collective action, usually taking the form of some sort of government intervention that involves some degree of coercion. Guest-blogging at Instapundit, Megan McArdle makes a very trenchant observation about how self-reflective virtuous behavior can reduce the need for collective action, in this …
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