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12 Dec 08

Worldchanging: DIYcity Challenge: Build a Rideshare Program that Works

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[DIY city]'s second challenge, issued earlier this week, asks participants to "conceive of a grassroots ridesharing system that can overcome the problems inherent in ridesharing and achieve critical mass."
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04 Dec 08

A Vancouverite’s Guide to Twitter » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt

As the title says, a compendium of all the major Vancouver users of Twitter. Victoria should take note...

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02 May 08

The House That Twitters Its Energy Use, by Katie Fehrenbach « Earth2Tech

Among other things: "The Twitter stream is an exercise in using the data from home automation feeds, and the hope is that, by making energy usage data transparent and easy to digest, it will change consumer behavior and reduce energy consumption." As I noted in bookmarking the related Wired Magazine piece, this relates to Wired Mag's earlier article on "Peak Water," too, where we learn that many London homes don't even have water meters. Actually, it's the same here in Victoria & Oak Bay. Not good.

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Home Tweet Home: Energy-Savvy House Broadcasts on Twitter | Wired Science from Wired.com

Wired Magazine article by Alexis Madrigal on "wired" homes, including http://twitter.com/andy_house, by IBM "master inventor" Andry Stanford-Clark who "rigged up his home to twitter its energy use." See The House That Twitters Its Energy Use by Katie Fehrenbacher (http://earth2tech.com/2008/04/30/the-house-that-twitters-its-energy-use/).

Compare to Wired Mag's recent "Peak Water" article, which pointed out that many London households aren't even on water meters, making consumption monitoring impossible.

In addition, consider too the New Scientist article, "City road networks grow like biological systems" (4/23/08).

All this relates to infrastructure -- and to how we're just beginning to understand it from new angles. (See also Doc Searls' continuing investigation of infrastructure in Linux Journal.)

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  • This revolution is being led by infotech guys like the Google engineer we wrote about, or the creator of the Twitter system, Andy Stanford-Clark, who works for IBM's Pervasive and Advanced Messaging Technologies team. And as Katie Fehrenbacher noted over at Earth2Tech, the creators of Flash are now hard at work on an energy monitoring and automation system called Greenbox.
  • As we've noted before, the convergence of IT and green tech is beginning as hackers turn the environment we've built and the one that naturally surrounds us into data that can be recorded, analyzed and used to reduce resource consumption.
    • The data becomes part of the infrastructure... - on 2008-05-02
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13 Apr 08

Twitter and the Friends Crisis

Darren Barefoot blogs about Twitter's "signal to noise ratio" (which easily descends into uselessness) to explain some of the problems around "friending" on the web. I left a long-ish comment in response (on the usefulness of filters).

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10 Apr 08

Technology Review: Consolidating Your Web Banter

MIT Tech Review reports on Seesmic's purchase of Thwirl; this bookmark is page 2 from that article. I find this bit especially useful:
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"The past five years or so have seen a massive proliferation of user- generated content," says Bret Taylor, founder and CEO of FriendFeed. Tools that aggregate this information have been around for years, but so far they haven't been very good at filtering useful content from less-useful content. "Our theory is that people you know are the best filters for information," he says.
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- This relates to my previous questions/ thoughts on filtering apropos the Clay Shirky/ Jon Lebkowsky interview in WorldChanging.

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  • "The past five years or so have seen a massive proliferation of user-generated content," says Bret Taylor, founder and CEO of FriendFeed. Tools that aggregate this information have been around for years, but so far they haven't been very good at filtering useful content from less-useful content. "Our theory is that people you know are the best filters for information," he says.
  • As Le Meur sees it, one of the keys to consolidating personal online communications is a programming standard called XMPP, an open platform that lets anyone develop instant-communication software. Google Talk, for instance, runs on XMPP, which allows it to be accessed in a number of different ways: in a Web browser, as downloadable software, and even via third-party chat-service aggregating software such as Adium.
06 Apr 08

My Essential Twitter Tools

Via Tris Hussey; blog post by Jeremiah Owyang, Web Strategist, SF Bay Area: listing of 7 different Twitter tools/ apps. "TwitterLocal" is particularly interesting.

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  • 6) Location Based:     If you live in a particular area, and want to parse out a specific location, this Twitterlocal filter finds tweets based upon a users profile location. If you’ve a local business, this could become useful.
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