Gil Friend’s Blog
Candy Bar-Sized Bluetooth PC
[Gizmodo]: Now I don't know what exactly you'd want to use this Waysmall 200ax-bt 200MHz computer with integrated Bluetooth for, but that's not because it's useless. Just the opposite, in fact. For $184 you get a low-power computer running the Linux 2.6.0 kernel with...
Apple’s Strategy re Digital Rights Management
eBookCulture offers a fascinating post about DRM (built on an 'epic' post at drunkenblog.com) Apple's strategy for iTunes and iPod is really about creating a 'DRM platform that is riding on top of everyone else's platform'(a la Google). -- not selling iPods.
Gillmor: Do we have any options about options?
Speaking of Gillmor (and of market signals) he did a fine piece on options and executive compensation back in May. In their 2003 book, 'In the Company of Owners,' Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse and Aaron Bernstein argue for wider stock ownership among employees. After...
‘Trust us.’ Are spam filters out of control at Verio Hosting?
Sent as an open letter to Dan Gillmor at the San Jose Mercury News, the most reliable source I know in the Valley: I thought this might be of interest as a tech trend for you to write about. And I'd welcome your advice. Verio, our ISP and web host, has just...
Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight
NE sky, 1am Central (US) time, 3-4 times more intense than usual. What does this have to do with sustainability? I have no idea. But it sure is cool to see.
Greener than thou…
While my home turf of Berkeley CA has an active Sustainable Business Working Group, convened by Mayor Tom Bates' commitment to have Berkeley be the greenest city in the country (what that means is in itself an interesting question), its neighbor to the south isn't...
Solar mobile device charger
NTT will release 'Pocket Energy,' a portable solar-cell system for recharging mobile devices, at the end of June 2004. One of the features of this system is its versatility, which allows it to charge a wide range of 3- to 8-volt devices according to a press release...
Lovins spoonful
[Grist] offers a long and interesting dialog with Hunter Lovins, president of Natural Capitalism, Inc, and lots of great links too. Too many morsels to quote, so here's just one: The connections are almost endless: On the policy side, we are making the same conceptual...
Pollution mitigates pollution?
[New Scientist]: Acid rain limits global warming The new study shows that sulphur in acid rain may have benefits, limiting global warming by counteracting the natural production of methane gases by microbes in wetland areas. I'm running a betting pool on how long...