Sam Rose's blog

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More difficult to assess is the question of whether this microbusiness mindset will persist into the childbearing years. From Gary Becker onwards, economists have formulated the decisions about whether to form households, to have children, and how to raise them, in economic terms. Yet it was never clear that people actually made their family decisions that way.

Recall this idea we discussed two years ago in East Lansing? :)

You can watch this movie in it's entirety on youtube. It came out in 2002. I found the claim that the "adoption of curve of linux followed the adoption curve of the internet", and that the application that really made linux was apache web server.

This is really important for the "Access commons" concept. I think it also possibly informs what can be expected in some ways in other "commons" (food, energy, etc).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_generation#Microgrid

I thought this concept of "microgrid" was worth thinking about.

This is an emerging "standard" in power generation: to shrink down the "grid", with a single point of entry into the "macrogrid". The design was made to be of service to the "macrogrid" (the existing centralized power system), and is wired in a way that allows the centralized power system to see it as one entity.

Having an interesting learning experience today revisiting mapping objects and relationships using active record in Rails 3.

I had an idea last night to create a new version of ecology mapping in the context of buying services or using shared resources. This is better than a "score card" and can be used for p2p/open source, carbon/climate change, local economies, commons and anything else you can think of. I chucked the idea of creating a survey and am going with this instead.

More on all of this later.