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  WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: [The contest presents] an opportunity for talented architects, urban planners, designers, ecologists and students to put forward a creative and implementable vision for the reconstruction of a New Orleans neighborhood including a multi-use community center and multi-family housing... [and] combines Global Green USA's commitment to green affordable housing, sustainable cities, and climate solutions that work for communities, with Brad Pitt's passion for intelligent architecture and determination to combat inequity (via Cosmos)

A blog doesn't need a clever name: The Internet brought Zhao a certain amount of political influence, yet he seemed less excited about the way his blog might transform the government and more excited about the way it had transformed his sense of himself. Several young Chinese told me the same thing. (via Cosmos)

Paul Kapustka's Blog: In case you want to sift through the latest version, David Isenberg has a PDF on his site, though as he states in an accompanying post, there will likely be many changes to the broth before it's soup. Meanwhile, as Om frets that Silicon Valley doesn't think the debate is worth talking about, Drew Clark over at the National Journal says that (via Cosmos)

isen.blog: I finally got my mitts on the most recent version of the Barton-Upton Telecom Bill, called COPE for ‘‘Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006." It is dated April 12. The acronym COPE sounds like not even the authors are happy with it. (via Cosmos)

  digiblade: New Organizing Institute Covenant College Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project Association for Community Networking Amazing Kids CCTV Center for Media and Democracy Alliance for Community Media Professor Susan Crawford David Isenberg -- Harvard Berkman Center Sascha Meinrath -- Community Internet Pioneer Center for Creative Voices in Media Community Technology Centers Consumer Project on Technology Interfaith Council for Social Justice (via Cosmos)

  Mandarin Design. Web and Blog Design and Development: Chris Albritton Ronni Bennett Kevin Bedell Howard Bryan Deep Fun BoingBoing edhat Terry Heaton Jay Rosen Kim Cameron George Lakoff Scott Rosenberg Larry Lessig Jim Thompson Jeff Jarvis David Isenberg Stephen Johnson Tim Oren Geoff Moore Rex Hammock This is Broken Max Sawicky Stuart Hughes Dave Pentecost John Perry Barlow Mary Hodder Dan Gillmor Steve Gillmor Dean Landsman Seth Finkelstein (via Cosmos)

Jerry Michalski's Home on the Web: The first one is under way right now: David Isenberg's Freedom to Connect, in Silver Spring, Maryland. I met David years ago when he invited me to speak at AT&T Research, where he worked when he wrote the milestone essay, The Rise of the Stupid Network. (via Cosmos)

  People Over Process: While we're busy freaking out about telcos trying to charge extra money for net bias, the MySpace camp might actually figure out how to exploitthe stupid network instead of fight against it. If you owned the content and the browser, you'd be set pretty well, and that $580 million would seem like an even better deal. (via Cosmos)

 [Nerdshit] Android Science: Android Science February 27th, 2006

 [The public thing] On Climate Change: But the US remains a signatory to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the US National Academy of Sciences agree that there is a link between human activity, carbon emissions and atmospheric warming. Recently the US Energy Secretary and Commercial Secretary jointly issued a report again accepting the potential damage to the planet through global warming.

 [INDUSTRIAL::MUSIC::LIBRARY] COIL: An Interview: JOHN BALANCE AND PETER CHRISTOPHERSON IN CONVERSATION WITH JAS. MORGAN AND DIANA TRIMBLE The difference between MONDO and magazines like Rolling Stone can clearly be illustrated by comparing their list of the year's top ten records with ours.

[Makower.typepad.com] Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward: Making the Grid "Smart": Here's one more element to the Smart Grid: yet another acronym: V2G, meaning "vehicle to grid." Some day, when we have millions of plug-in hybrids connected to the grid during the 23 hours or so the average car is parked, they can become part of the power system, initially providing "regulatory services" to even out the momentary voltage fluctuations and "spinning reserves," and ultimately providing peak power reserves. See lots of studies at the end of the CalCars Vehicles page and the entire research program at the University of Delaware.

[Cleantechblog.com] Cleantechblog: Making the Grid "Smart": The idea of the smart grid is to make the existing grid work more efficiently -- so much more, in fact, that it could reduce the need for additional power plants, or for costly redundant systems designed to work "just in case" of peak demand. That's the vision of a growing corps of researchers and companies working on grid optimization, a term that describes a wide range of information technologies that better understand and analyze exactly what's going on in a complex energy system on a minute-by-minute basis, then optimize the system in a way that's cost-effective.

 [Cemore.blogspot.com] NEW MOBILITIES: Ce-more about what's happening in the mobile world ...: The ITU Internet report 2005 is entitled "The Internet of Things".From the executive summary which is now available to download."'We are standing on the brink of a new ubiquitous computing and communication era,one that will radically transform our corporate,community, and personal spheres.Over a decade ago,the late Mark Weiser developed a seminal vision of future technological ubiquity,one in which the increasing “availability” of processing power would be accompanied by its decreasing “visibility”.As he observed, “the most profound technologies are those that disappear”¦they weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it”.Early forms of ubiquitous information and communication networks are evident in the widespread use of mobile phones:the number of mobile phones worldwide surpassed 2 billion in mid-2005.These little gadgets have become an integral and intimate part of everyday life for many millions of people,even more so than the internet.Today,developments are rapidly under way to take this phenomenon an important step further,by embedding short-range mobile transceivers into a wide array of additional gadgets and everyday items,enabling new forms of communication between people and things,and between things themselves".

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