Perhaps it’s a minor point, interesting only to bloggers and such, but the entire front page, with the exception of the javascript image rotation routine and the scroll box is now generated by the Drupal [w:Content Management System]. This is a further step toward allowing this site to be easier to update and manage.
Month: May 2005
Half of Humanity to Live in Cities
The BBC reports that half of the world’s population will soon live in cities. More information can be found at the United Nations Population Division’s web site.
Trump’s Twin Towers
For once, Donald Trump is right. At a news conference, Trump proposed rebuilding the original Twin Towers instead of the schmalzy 1,776′ tall Libeskind proposal. It’s hard to disagree with his pithy assessment of the scheme: “It is the worst pile of crap architecture I have ever seen in my life.”
Telcotrash
Telcotrash is a blog “on IP communications, incumbent wireline and wireless services and disruptive changes in the telco sector – and how the whole stuff is financed.”
The Long Tail
Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail site is a public diary on the way to his book on marketing’s growing attention to ever smaller niches. The article in which he first described this new phenomenon in Network Culture is in Wired Magazine.
Green Buildings vs. the Data Center
Slashdot links to an interview with Richard Sawyer, director of data center technology for West Kingston, R.I.-based American Power Conversion Corp. (APC) about energy efficiency in the data center. With all the interest in so-called “Green Buildings,” Sawyer points out that the data center has the highest power density in the building.
Los Angeles Real Estate Prices Revealed
How much did your neighbor really pay for their house? Were they late on their taxes? All this and more at the LA County Assessor’s Office Property Assessment Information System. After you enter in an intersection it displays a map of all the property in the area for you to inspect.
Geoblogs
How big are weblogs? How many are there? Go to feedmap.net to find out where they are and what’s around varnelis.net.
San Francisco the Ephemeral City
Joel Kotkin writes about San Francisco, the Ephemeral City. Is the successful city nothing more than Disneyland? See also Rebecca Solnit’s Hollow City: Gentrification and the Eviction of Urban Culture for a more detailed, darker view.