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Robot Operating System

Submitted by Sam Rose on Sun, 11/18/2012 - 09:13
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http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/software/overview

Wow.

http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/software/overview

Things are getting interesting in the machine controlling world.

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The technorati have a rather perverse reading of history

Submitted by richardcadler on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 10:07
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I really wish "internet scholars" would give this sort of thing a rest:

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"Is the Internet due for a “Magna Carta moment?”

That is a question being posed by Rebecca MacKinnon, an Internet scholar at the New America Foundation, who argues that private corporations are exerting excessive power over the Internet and should have that power checked. Just as the English barons crafted the original Magna Carta in 1215 to constrain the power of the unpopular King John, she says, Internet users should organize and push back against the companies.

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A 'think and do tank' looking at libraries and e-content delivery

Submitted by richardcadler on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 07:42
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http://andywoodworth.visibli.com/share/v9RZwp

An interview with Michael Porter, who is heading up a group called Library Renewal, “a new kind of nonprofit” organization whose goal is to develop “a new electronic content access and distribution infrastructure.”

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What are the critical implications of mainstream adoption of digital content for libraries?

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A privacy economy

Submitted by richardcadler on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 07:01
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http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18349132?source=rss

A rather bizarre article talking about new companies hoping to capitalize on people's concern over privacy in social media (or the lack of it). Basically, these are companies that are offering to help people own their data--even though it certainly looks like they'll be owning the platform. Here's a sample:

Michael Fertik, Reputation's CEO, says rising concerns about privacy online have created a demand among people to be given control of their data. "We think there is a coming privacy economy," he said.

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Afghanistan's FabFi Network

Submitted by richardcadler on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 04:25
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http://shareable.net/blog/afghans-build-open-source-internet-from-trash-0

Partly funded by the NSF, FabFi Network is "an open-source system that uses common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles."

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Blood and Oil - July/August 2011 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club

Submitted by Sam Rose on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 09:31
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http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201107/blood-and-oil.aspx

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201107/blood-and-oil.aspx

The U.S. military is embracing alternative energy—but not because of climate change. Up to half of the yearly American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan have been incurred guarding fuel convoys, and the Pentagon will no longer tolerate oil's "burden in blood."

The US military comes close to paying anywhere from $14 to up to $400 for a gallon of fuel (not to mention the cost in human lives).

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Distributed generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Submitted by Sam Rose on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 21:26
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_generation#Microgrid

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.

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