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April 20, 2026

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You Can’t Blame Data Centers in Seattle for Our Skyrocketing Electricity Prices

This post was originally published on GeekWire on April 20, 2026. I had noticed this “data centers in Seattle” PR op under way and flagged it in last week’s newsletter. After a vague report that some companies were seeking to build “large” data centers in Seattle, Mayor Katie Wilson is exploring a moratorium on new…

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July 4, 2010

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Book Review: Cognitive Surplus – Clay Shirky

Subtitled “Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age”, this is social media theorist Clay Shirky’s second book after Here Comes Everybody, which concerned itself with the dynamics of using social tools to “organize without organizations”. Cognitive Surplus starts with a potent historical parallel and an astonishing data point. Early 18th century England had a “Gin…

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July 1, 2010

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The Decline and Fall of Mozilla – Continued

Another indicator of Mozilla’s continued slide (previous complaints here and here): IBM announces they are standardizing on Firefox. The party is surely over. The only news here is why didn’t this happen years ago. My prescription remains Microzilla.

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June 29, 2010

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Upgraded to WordPress

It is long overdue but this blog is now running on WordPress. It is an impressive piece of software and hopefully more blogging will result. A big thanks to those who helped with the migration. I’ll put just new posts out on Twitter via @platformonomics while @charlesfitz will continue to be broader and more eclectic/cryptic.

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June 29, 2010

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May 3, 2010

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Where are the Windows 7 Tablets?

Windows 7 has been shipping with multi-touch support since October 2009 (just over six months ago as I write this). Windows multi-touch technology was presented to PC OEMs in November of 2008 (18 months ago). And it was first demoed publicly at All Things D in May of 2008 (just shy of two years ago).…

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You Can’t Blame Data Centers in Seattle for Our Skyrocketing Electricity Prices

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