Data centres: Social desert. Facebook’s building a datacenter in Prineville to leverage the natural climate cycle for cooling. I think that’s what you’d call “natural capitalism.”
Tag Archives: efficiency
Gutenberg’s truth: It’s difficult to justify using humans to duplicate content when computers are just so good at it.
Important news from the land of content management systems, publishing, and journalism
Lead by the ever entrepreneurial Will Davis, the Bangor Daily News made a complete switch to WordPress.
Tracking data on everything: Web team projects
Data makes the world more visible. At the end of March, I embarked on a personal initiative at the J-School to quantify as many of our processes as possible. My working thesis: if we can generate enough data about a system, and have a framework… Continue reading →
Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business. Also broken.
Adhoc transportation
Here’s the problem: I, like many people I know, drive too many places all alone in my car. One person in a three ton metal vehicle that could easily transport five. To move all of that mass around, with such unused, waste internal space, is… Continue reading →