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

Rich Karlgaard at Forbes has a recurring meme he calls the Cheap Revolution to explain the impact of increasing technological abundance.  He revisits it again in the latest issue of Forbes:   “The Cheap Revolution rolls on, making new billionaires even as it collects more old scalps each year. Step back and look at what’s…

Dave Winer contemplates browse -> search -> subscribe and finds inspiration. However, the fact that the t-shirt was more effective than the blog at propogating the meme doesn’t exactly motivate more frequent postings on my part.

A nice piece in Fast Company by John Sviokla on the power of ecosystems. The interesting question is whether you can plausibly make the transition from a closed/vertical industry model to an ecosystem/horizontal industry model.  It is hard to think of examples of companies successfully making that transition (got any candidates?). The revenue hit when…

The unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Grokster bodes mighty poorly for companies whose primary purpose is to facilitate music piracy through peer-to-peer file sharing.  My out-on-a-limb investment advice: this might not be the best place for your retirement nest egg.  Getting paid to propagate spyware while encouraging people to pirate music never was a great…

The grief for not having posted again has already come and gone, but I’m still well within my goal of not measuring posts on geologic time.   There is an idea coming into focus for me that is kind of obvious when you look at the specific instances but I’m not sure the general impact…