Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
Disable Google Search Wiki
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
To disable google search wiki, just add the following to the end of the url after doing a search:
&pws=0
You can also sign out of google’s personal web search program in your account settings. Even if you do not use the search wiki to vote results up or down, google does appear to be trending and custom tailoring results based upon your traffic patterns. In doing SEO, it is important to know that the results you are looking at are not biased.
Tags: information age, Marketing, Power station, Team, Technology, xampp
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Nature to the Grid: Renewable Homes
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
I’d like to propose a new idea.
The green movement has no doubt tipped into the public’s consciousness, and yet still hasn’t been consolidated into a feasible, economic starting point. I attempted to unify the myriad of renewable energy and consumption/waste innovations in my last post with the concept of ‘nature to the grid’, and will now attempt to expand on it further. The question is where can the average person start incorporating this concept into their life to not just benefit their ecolistic mentality and environment, but to save and make more money?
In continuance of our nature to the grid dialogue, I’ve come to the conclusion that it starts, from both an ecological and economical standpoint, with people taking a proactive role in turning their home into a renewable power station… turning their home into a ‘tree’ if you will.
Tags: biodynamics, clean tech, ecolism, Efficient energy use, Energy conservation, Green building, green home, home power station, nature to the grid, passive income, property development, property investment, renewable, renewable energy, sustainability, Technology
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Sustainable | 2 Comments »
Nature to the Grid: Bioenergy
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
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Sustainability is a loaded word with many different meanings and ideas associated with it. I’m wondering what concept will bring it all together?
From a production (energy) standpoint, you’ve got solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, hydro, and ethanol. And with consumption, you have to ask how are we going to create products, how are we going to deal with waste, and where are we going to get our food and water?
When you start looking at all these variables, you seem to get to the root of the sustainability problem… it’s very fragmented. There needs to be a new holistic approach that attacks the whole issue. Where do we get our energy, our food, and a new paradigm for products and waste? To us, the answer is quite clear… it’s found in nature, where the essence is growth. Grow our food, grow our energy, grow our resources. It’s all about growth energy… bioenergy.
Tags: biodynamics, bioenergy, clean tech, Coskata, Daniel Nocera, ecolism, Energy, grow, hydrogen fuel, MIT, nature to the grid, photosynthesis, renewable energy, Solar energy, sustainability, Technology
Posted in Energy, Environment, Sustainable, Technology | 12 Comments »
Millennial Generation Spirituality
Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Tags: Connectedness, ecolism, millennial generation, millennial generation spirituality, Millennials, Neural network, Religion and Spirituality, Social network, Spirituality, Technology
Posted in Lifestyle, Millennials, Spirituality, Technology | 14 Comments »
The Biggest Problem with Technology
Monday, December 8th, 2008
The biggest problem with technology is complexity. A technology is only as valuable as its ability to be used to provide value. When any technology is too complex it creates barriers to use. Even if a technology has great value, it will see little interest if it’s too complex. And even if the value of the technology is greater than, or commensurate with, its complexity, the lack of use (aka adoption) will be apparent. There may be a general lack of interest to a technology, however if interest is high, and adoption is low, there’s a high probability that complexity is the cause. This can be summed up in a simple equation:
technology adoption is inversely proportional to its complexity / unit value
One technology that fits this complexity equation is the Semantic Web. If you look at the initiatives such as standards, notations, reference implementations, technologies, and even products, a few obvious observations can be made:
Tags: adoption, complexity, HTML, Metadata, microformats, RSS, Semantic Web, Technology, technology adoption, technology complexity, Web 2.0, XHTML, XML
Posted in Technology | 6 Comments »
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