May 2011
1 post
The power of Twitter & how news spreads
The team over @SocialFlow have put together an incredible post on the spread of news of Osama Bin Laden’s death through Twitter:
http://blog.socialflow.com/post/5246404319/breaking-bin-laden-visualizing-the-power-of-a-single
I particularly love these two sentences:
Twitter has become the dominant mechanism to get timely updates about events that are taking place regardless of geography,...
March 2011
2 posts
Staring Down Stockdale - Redux →
Trying to get back into this ‘blogging’ thing all the kids are talking about… It’s been awhile…
Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com →
MIT professor explores the development of language using amazing video and audio collection. Additionally, looks at the connections of communication and content using social networks and capture of television programs. Particularly impressive set of visualizations. Curious to see how quickly advertising seizes on how these communication processes happen and utilizes them to sell product...
February 2010
14 posts
“The only thing different about the Google mafia compared with other, similar...”
– The Top Angel Investors: Behind the Rankings - BusinessWeek
“Much-Touted Bloom Fuel Cell Still Too Spendy”
– Much-Touted Bloom Fuel Cell Still Too Spendy | Wired Science | Wired.com
Ridiculous - how much more than "par" did the...
When you do the math, the Bloom box’s electricity costs substantially more per kilowatt hour than the grid.
“In other “clean-energy” sectors such as solar and wind energy, jobs...”
– Sunil Sharan - The green jobs myth - washingtonpost.com
Green jobs are vague, but necessary
For the purpose of creating jobs, then, a “clean-energy economy” will not offer a panacea. This does not necessarily mean that America should not become green to alleviate climate change, to kick its addiction to foreign oil or to use energy sources more efficiently. But those who take great pains to tout the “job-creation potential” of the green space might just end up...
“FOR entrepreneurs hoping to land start-up capital from angel investors, here’s...”
– In the Hunt - In Pitching to Angel Investors, Preparation Outweighs Zeal - NYTimes.com
Advice for early stage firms...
FOR entrepreneurs hoping to land start-up capital from angel investors, here’s what two recent studies found: Don’t get carried away when you pitch your product because the investors may lose interest faster than you can say “almost unlimited market.”
That's better, Arizona. →
“What we decided from Day 1 in the company is that we wanted to only solve the...”
– Interview with K.R. Sridhar, Founder of Bloom Energy
Marketing Matters for Clean Tech (or why Bloom is... →
An important connection
A theme I hope to discuss in more detail is the overlap of military and commercial applications of renewable energy and other clean technologies. In the meantime, I highly recommend: The DOD Energy Blog
Recent posts of note:
Navy and Ag Team on Energy Efficiency and Renewables
Lockheed Hot on the Cleantech Trail
Also, Quadrennial Defense Review discusses risks of climate change.
Interesting that Arizona would threaten the solar industry at a time when green jobs are so heavily in focus:
Critics: Bill Puts Solar Companies, Jobs at Risk
Arizona energy bill could hurt Chandler’s solar future
Arizona “Great Leap Backward for Solar Power” Passes Committee
If this passes, most people think Suntech and others will pull out of the state.
Suntech to open plant in...
Take your own advice, or hello.
Having advised multiple people in the past few weeks (months?) to start a blog and use Twitter to create a personal brand and build out a network online, I thought I’d take my own advice. After several days of lurking, here we are.
The name of the blog comes from the well-known Stockdale Paradox, but then you already knew that. I work in the clean tech industry - with an investment,...
“Vietnam stopped when I left in 1970. A week later I was skiing at Lake Tahoe,...”
– From: Something Was Dreadfully Wrong