My two favorite presentations at ETech, not counting the AMEE one that I specifically went to see in the first place, are Electricity 2.0: Applying the Lessons of the Web to Our Energy Networks and Save the Programmer, Save the Planet.
The title of Tim O’Reilly’s ETech 09 Keynote last night was Work on Stuff that Matters. This is the second reason I came to ETech: I’m a total sucker for inspirational save the world messages to the faithful, and Tim’s was great. I’m really happy that O’Reilly is sponsoring a Gov 2.0 summit in D.C. [...]
Rain is good, wonderful in fact. In recent years, we never get enough. The SF Bay area is one of only five places in the world where there is a Mediterranean climate, which has a very specific definition. It only rains when it is cool (or downright cold, but very rarely snows or freezes) and [...]