Black Google saves energy
November 8, 2007
An interesting and effortless opportunity to practice personal sustainability, care of EcoIron and Rising Phoenix Design.
Consider a simple calculation:
- According to the U.S. Dept. of Energy, an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.
- At 200 million queries per day, Google (white), is displayed about 550,000 hours per day.
- Black Google would save 750 megawatt-hours a year.
If Google is your homepage, try using this instead.
Promote energy-efficient web design. Go black.
Posted by Daniel in : Ethics, Links, Society, Sustainability, Technology4 comments
Google hits the streets
May 29, 2007
Here are a couple of adjacent images from Google’s new ‘Street View’ in GoogleMaps.
As of this writing, you can walk the streets of New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami–maybe more. The automated stitching of panoramas from different days and times makes for some high-tech surrealist photography. Continuing the twisted translation of reality into the Googleverse…. Just wait until these are fed by realtime surveillance/web cameras and the most-recent geotagged Flickr photos.
Posted by Daniel in : Geo, Links, Social Software, Technology, VisualizationAdd a comment
The Machine is Us/ing Us
February 9, 2007
From Professor Mike Wesch at Kansas State University: a four-and-a-half minute video that brilliantly and succinctly summarizes the evolution of the Web to date and points the direction for its further growth.
To echo Roy Pea, who sent me the link, this is perhaps the best example of using a YouTube video to educate that I’ve ever seen. The video is a work-in-progress and you can give your feedback directly to the creators at their blog.
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Collective Decision Making at Los Alamos Lab
November 29, 2006
My collaborators at Los Alamos National Lab, Marko Rodriguez and Jennifer Watkins, just launched a web presence for the Collective Decision Making Systems project, an umbrella for their research on prediction markets, voting systems, and related topics (some of which I’ve helped out on). Keep an eye on these two — they mix technical brilliance with imagination, and that’s a potent combination.
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