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. …
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 …
Lynne Kiesling 2007 was the best music year I’ve had in a very, very long time. From a nostalgia perspective, you could argue that it’s the best year I’ve had in 24 years, because that was the last time I saw The Police play live, and in 2007 I saw them live again, several times. …
Lynne Kiesling Any of you planning to watch the Penguins/Sabres NHL Winter Classic game today? Here’s ESPN’s Scott Burnside on some of the possible pitfalls of an outdoor hockey game in the snow belt of New York on New Year’s Day. Here’s the weather forecast: Periods of snow, mainly before 10am. High near 36. Southeast …
Lynne Kiesling Happy New Year from KPLandia!
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