Archive for August, 2009
Cloud interoperability and security drove passionate discussions among presenters and attendees at Cloud User ’09 in San Diego this week. A very good mix of professionals representing equipment vendors, cloud service providers, cloud software and systems developers, government, and the media rolled up sleeves, put egos aside, and drilled into issues that are impeding broad acceptance of cloud services.
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Tags: cloud interoperability, cloud user 09, john savageau
Back in the Internet dark ages, around December 2007, the State of California released a report entitled “The State of Connectivity – Building Innovation through Broadband.” This was in response to public concern that both California and the United States continued to fall further behind other economic competitors, in particular South Korea, and Singapore.
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Tags: broadband, broadband stimulas, john savageau, recovery act, telecom
A couple months ago we explored citizen journalism and how that is changing the way we access news. The FTC does acknowledge the shift from print to Internet, and simply wants to ensure that traditional media companies understand the realities of the shift to new media formats.
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Tags: citizen journalist, john savageau, journalism
The Good and Bad of Tiny URLs
Many innovations throughout history have emerged because people need to simplify complex ideas or operations into something that is usable. Internet users are getting tired of typing in complex URLs, as they make mistakes, cannot remember complex URLs, or simply don’t want to be bothered being forced to mentally dig too deep into the technology of the Internet. People simply want to display stuff on their screens, whether PDAs or 24 inch monitors, and engage in the utility of the Internet – rather than becoming systems engineers.
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Tags: mini url, tiny url, url shorteners
This afternoon I needed to make the drive from Long Beach to Burbank. Normally this is not a bad drive, as the mountains are a pleasure to see off in the distance, and if you take the long way around, particularly in the winter months, it is a clear, beautiful panorama of the LA Basin skyline. Not today. A combination of smoke drifting into the LA area from fires near Santa Barbara, and weather conditions holding the smog in the LA Basin have created a condition that is, well downright disgusting.
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Tags: air pollution, los angeles
Those of us who are soldiers in the Pickens Army are dedicated to promoting and evangelizing the religion of reducing carbon produced by oil, reducing our dependence on foreign energy, and are always on the lookout for initiatives to feed our passion to solve critical energy issues facing America’s economy, the environment, and our national security.”
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Tags: national grid, natural gas, pickens plan, renewable energy
How many of us have been there? You get up early every day, get cleaned and prepared for the job. Then it happens. “Thanks for your years of service. However the company is going in a different direction…” You don’t hear anything beyond that point. All you want to do is get out and breathe some fresh air.
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Tags: fired, job loss, job opportunity, termination
Cap and Trade programs try to limit production and impact of CO2 emissions and production of greenhouse gases resulting in pollution and potentially global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency/EPA identifies Cap and Trade as programs which “reward innovation, efficiency, and early action, providing strict environmental accountability without inhibiting economic growth.”
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Tags: cap and trade, global warming, greenhouse gas, ulaanbaatar
Nearly all people agree protecting the environment is critical to our continued prosperity and health. However there are arguments on how to best approach legislation that would either regulate or offer guidance on controlling pollutants and waste. While it is clear much of the debate is based on politics and corporate special interest lobbying, a couple of the above points do justify further study and discussion.
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Tags: cap and trade, global warming, hr2454
Carbon Dioxide, or CO2, is a natural byproduct nature. Nature produces CO2 in large quantities during volcanic eruptions, geo-thermal events, and other processes as simple as breathing and normal chemical breakdowns of other elements. At concentrations of CO2 greater than 5000 PPM, you can expect you will begin to suffer permanent damage, as your blood will become starved for oxygen.
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Tags: global warming, greenhouse gas, hr 2454
John Savageau’s Profile
John Savageau is a life long telecom and Internet geek, with a deep interest in the environment and all things green. Whether drilling into the technology of human communications, or describing a blue whale off Catalina Island, Savageau will try to present complex ideas in terms that are easily appreciated and understood.
John Savageau is President of Pacific-Tier Communications based in Honolulu, Hawaii
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