Yesterday President Obama announced $3.4 billion in government grants to improve the efficiency of the nation’s electrical transmission network. The grants range from $400,000 to $200 million and will be used to develop and install […]
The launch window extends to 12:00 Noon EDT (1600 GMT) but weather conditions are marginal to support a launch attempt this morning. The official launch weather forecast has been downgraded to only a 40 percent […]
I just came across an absolutely fascinating chart from the New York Times that shows the rate of adoption of a number of consumer technologies starting with early technologies like the stove, telephone, electricity, and […]
If you’re stuck home in bed with the flu Dec 1-3 or your travel budget has been cut and you can’t make it to Las Vegas, there is a way you can still keep up […]
Earlier this month President Obama issued an Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance that establishes an integrated strategy for sustainability in the Federal Government and makes reduction of greenhouse gas […]
I blogged earlier about the FCC coming out strongly in support of net neutrality for the wired and wireless internet. According to a report, Google, Ebay, Skype, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, IAC, Sony Electronics, Digg, Flickr, […]
According to a report, since Saturday the White House’s web site has been running on Drupal, an open source content management engine that is behind many web sites including OSGEO’s. According to the report, White House […]
I have blogged on previous occasions about the RESTful API for accessing raw geospatial data which Haris Kurtagic developed and which Jason Birch has used to provide open access to geospatial data at the City […]