Archive for August, 2005

New Technology could Double Gas Mileage

Friday, August 5th, 2005

From Digg:
An inventor by the name of Thomas Kasmer has created a device to double the gas mileage of conventional cars. Yes, that’s right, conventional gas engines — no hybrids here. Imagine a Ford Expedition that gets 40+ miles per gallon. Needless to say, he has the attention of automakers.
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State of the Blogosphere - Part 2: Posting Volume

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

Technorati has a nice graph showing various memes throughout the blogosphere. At the end of July, there were about 900,000 posts created each day. That’s about 37,500 posts every hour, or 10.4 posts per second. It peaked at just over 1.1 Million posts per day. Posting volume has more than doubled in [...]

10 Steps To Better Meetings

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

D. Keith Robinson posted some great tips about keeping meetings on track.

Don’t call a meeting unless you have to. Make sure—really sure—that the meeting is needed.
Invite only those people who will get something out of the meeting. This goes for recurring meetings too. Only have people come if they are going to contribute and/or [...]

Brown-Bag It to Half a Million

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

By not buying a lunch every day, you can actually save a significant ammount of money!
So let’s see, four days bringing lunch at $2 plus one day out at $7 equals $15 per week. Eating out every day would cost $35 per week, so I save $20 a week! That’s over $80 a month — [...]

New law to make publicly free wifi illegal

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Digg:
Two senators have propose a law that will ban cities from implementing free wifi for their citizens. Instead, they will allow private companies to capitalize on what would have been free for everyone. Call your senator and revolt!
This bill is just rediculous. Senator Ensign and McCain have been bought by big telecommunication companies. More [...]