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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
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 me, [...]
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Lynne Kiesling The Tour starts today, yay!!!! I’m totally jazzed. Here’s a very useful guide from Wired to various ways to follow the Tour online. And even more cool, it’s a wiki, so if you know of some other sources they are missing, log in and add ‘em! This year I’m cheering all-American — Christian Vande Velde, [...]
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lynne Kiesling Gee, I really feel like the new, new world has truly arrived, when one of the most visible conversations in the places I frequent is about Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker review of Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Chris Anderson responds to Gladwell, continuing the conversation. But you know that it’s game [...]
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Lynne Kiesling How cool is this? Solar cells that can tune to the light angle and quality at different latitudes: Quantasol has now created GaAs [gallium arsenide] solar cells that can be tuned to the prevailing light conditions of a particular place, to get the most out of the cells wherever they are. To do that, the firm [...]
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Lynne Kiesling I have to admit, I thought that this point was obvious. Clearly Walmart (accurately, I think) sees itself as well-positioned to leverage its size nationally to negotiate better health care arrangements than its competitors, so its newly-announced support of employer-based health care is a classic example of raising rivals’ costs. Apparently, it’s not so obvious...
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Lynne Kiesling Germany’s utility Yellow Strom is a technology leader. They are leading in the introduction of digital technology in the interface between their wires network and the customer’s home; for example they are one of the first partners with Google to roll out Google’s Power Meter, and they are working on an application that will [...]
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Lynne Kiesling Today a post from Ben Casselman at the WSJ’s Environmental Capital highlights one of my favorite unintended benefits of open-road electronic tolling: by eliminating deceleration and acceleration to pay a cash toll, electronic tolling reduces emisssions, with one big caveat: So does eliminating toll booths really cut down on emissions? The answer appears to be [...]...
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Lynne Kiesling I’ve had a lovely morning catching up on some of Russ Roberts’ EconTalk podcasts. In particular, I listened back-to-back to Michele Boldrin discussing intellectual property and Paul Romer discussing growth, including intellectual property institutions, with Russ. As the show notes for the Boldrin podcast note, “Boldrin argues that copyright and patent...
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Lynne Kiesling The Museum of Modern Art is hosting an exhibition of James Ensor’s work. Ensor was a late 19th-early 20th century Belgian painter, and the best word I can think of to describe his work is … eclectic. From the NYT review of the exhibition: He was an aggrieved traditionalist with a pop-culture itch, equally entertained [...]
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Gadgets9.com (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a roundup of some developments in smart grid end user devices (in other words, I had a bunch of cool articles open about nifty innovations, so let’s round ‘em up so I can clear tabs in my browser!) that I hope you will find as interesting as I do: From the NYT Gadgetwise blog, how to keep a green home, remotely . This post focuses on Tendril’s...
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a roundup of some developments in smart grid end user devices (in other words, I had a bunch of cool articles open about nifty innovations, so let’s round ‘em up so I can clear tabs in my browser!) that I hope you will find as interesting as I do: From the NYT Gadgetwise blog, [...]
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Lynne Kiesling Last week I wrote about Microsoft’s Hohm energy management product announcement. Yesterday at earth2tech, Katie Fehrenbacher elaborated on the cloud computing angle, and how Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service might change energy data storage, computing, and business models. Microsoft, Google, and others are all exploring cloud computing, for good reason:...
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Lynne Kiesling In his usual trenchant way, Jonathan Adler has hit upon the two things to which I object the most in the Waxman-Markey bill and vote. The first is the one about which I wrote in May: despite all of the tooth-gnashing and knicker-twisting about the cap-and-trade portions of the bill, the really egregious aspects [...]
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
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...
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
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.
