What mode of transportation is self-balancing, all-electric, and one-wheeled? If you guessed the Solowheel you’d be right. We’re always on the lookout for unique green technology, and recently the Solowheel caught our eye. The invention is a single-wheeled personal transportation device, similar to the Segway, but lighter and more compact. It runs on a 1,000Read… Read more »
Sorry for the cross post – I have this piece today on the opinion page of the Toronto Star. They’ve actually done a nice graphic for it so do encourage you to check it out. End the silence on aid For the past two weeks, Canadians have slowly watched the minister of international development, BevRead… Read more »
ISSA WEBSITES IN THE NEWS. Roll Call reports. “In mid-February, videos posted by the California Republican’s staff on the YouTube page of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee contained a production credit for ‘DEI Productions’ instead of the ‘Oversight Productions’ moniker his office had used on other committee videos.” LOBBYIST WINS. Roll Call reports onRead… Read more »
In his Fast Lane blog, Ray LaHood highlights activities at the Proterra factory in Greenville (SC), which manufactures zero-emission electric buses. Original post
Commenting on websites is a funny thing. Luckily for me, DavePress is sufficiently niche not to attract too many readers, so the problem of being inundated by moronic comments has never really been an issue for me. For big, popular sites though, commenting can be a real issue. You just need to take a lookRead… Read more »
Although the headline was lost among budget cuts, state capital protests and public sector layoffs, efforts to gin up interest in cyber security during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting last weekend were heard loud and clear. Calls from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and a briefing by General Keith Alexander,Read… Read more »
Creative Commons via Robbert van der Steeg on FlicKr None of us are born with the knowledge of how many days we have on this earth. I suppose, if we did, it might be a bit torturous….always wondering if we could cheat the certain hands of death. Today, I’m not going to write about socialRead… Read more »
The National Broadband Map (NBM) is a searchable and interactive website that allows users to view broadband availability across every neighborhood in the United States. The NBM was created by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and in partnership with 50 states, five territories and theRead… Read more »
Professor Dr. Vytautas Čyras of the Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics has posted On a Legal Framework in a Virtual World: Lessons from the VirtualLife Project, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Professor Čyras describes the regulatory infrastructure of VirtualLife, theRead… Read more »
In looking at the middle east, its still an open question as to whether the countries engaged in overthrowing their decades old dictators can begin to move toward nascent emerging democracies. But if they do, we know the process of becoming a stable, democratic society is a long-term exercise. But is there a corallary betweenRead… Read more »