* http://twit.tv/floss97 about http://exist.sourceforge.net/ 
   * example: http://history.state.gov/
 * http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4301.html
   * http://www.amazon.com/Building-Social-Web-Applications-Establishing/dp/0596518757/
   * interview with Jon Udell
   * at ~22:30 - Jon: ~"an application" can be accomplished by a convention
   * noticings (Flickr game) - Activity Stream - Oauth - OpenID
 * http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4289.html
   * panel discussion of spectrum: cognitive radio, FCC, policy, lots of complicated stuff
                  

• via Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• How could Jeff Hawkins Hierarchical Temporal Memory be used to make sense of this data? http://www.numenta.com/

When I push [my toaster] lever down, if there's a crumb stuck in the coils, it isn't long before my fragile pre-coffee state is shattered by the piercing siren of my smoke detector. It doesn't know about the toast, but really it should. If it were sociable, as soon as it detected particulate matter in the air, it would query the toaster to see if it had been activated. That would tell it that in all likelihood, it wasn't detecting an unattended, middle-of-the-night fire but instead a benign morning meal. The price of low-power radio networking and the just-minted funding for smart home energy networks makes this sociable smoke-detector scenario entirely within our reach. I want one.

• http://www.pachube.com/feeds/2168
• http://apps.pachube.com/
• http://menlopark.dcontinuum.com/power/
• http://dcontinuum.com/content/

concur with Lu’s findings. Since projecting our electricity usage in real time on the web, in an easily readable, annotated visualization format, it’s become very clear to us both when the peaks in our usage occur, and what is causing them, without sweating the small stuff. The simple visualization of high-energy devices - dryers, dishwashers - seems, from a simple behavioral modification standpoint, to get the job done. Appliance-based monitoring systems, furthermore, inject a complexity that means they’ll take awhile to achieve ubiquity. Although we yearn for a future in which all appliances are “smart,” the number of smart plugs, smart sockets, and upgraded appliances that would need to be integrated into our households to make an appliance-based system effective, as well as the data gaps that would accompany a necessarily piecemeal application, make the idea of a whole-house, appliance-based monitoring system seem, to us, a misplaced focus right now.

"creating a state of universal coverage. ... DirigoChoice insurance plan has opened enrollment for small businesses and self-employed individuals, through a public-private health insurance venture with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine. More than 1,000 individuals have already enrolled, and coverage is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2005. In May 2005, the state announced that Dirigo Health will provide coverage for families earning up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level, up from the previous limit of 150 percent. In announcing the news, Governor John Baldacci said that by expanding coverage, the state will save an estimated $10 million in charity care and bad debt for those who previously had no health insurance. For More Information Web site: http://www.dirigohealth.maine.gov/index.htmlContacts: Trish Riley, Executive Director and Adam Thompson, Legislative and Constituent Liaison, Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance Phone: (207) 624-7442 "

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Compare to http://routeabout.blogspot.com/2008/07/fwd-george-lakoff-co-foundersr-fellow.html "discusses what the seemingly disjoint topics neuroscience and sociology have in common, and why he feels that they are important. He talks about why some people succeed, and why some people don't. He also explores the connection between a high I.Q. score and the love and emotional care a person receives from his or her family. We get to hear about what roles the conscious and sub-conscious mind play in decision making; how different factors affect how we live our lives; and how we unconsciously seek out familiar things in our environment. Brooks talks about the permeability of the human brain; how emotions gives us the ability to remember and learn; our ability to copy behavior from our peers; and the shaping of thought processes. He also gives us his view on the emergence of human capital as a global currency, and why this is more important than the rise of developing countries.