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President Obama visited my home state of Iowa yesterday, on Earth Day, to highlight his administration’s energy agenda, including reduced greenhouse emissions, increased renewable energy production, a cap-and-trade emissions reduction program, and the creation of an advanced energy innovation industry as a pillar of the US economy. See the AP article.
Obama used the town of [...]

WASHINGTON, DC — In a move widely lauded for its potential to reduce energy usage, President Barack Obama signed today an executive order formally changing the name of the country from the previous “United States of America” (USA) to the new title “America, United States of” (AUS).
The renaming is intended to quickly move the position [...]

I just submitted my application for the position of Alternative Power and Energy Storage Analyst at Lux Research.
This position sounds like something I dreamed up. Check out the page on Lux’s Alternative Power and Energy Storage Intelligence practice. It’s a veritable cornucopia of the most interesting and exciting emerging technologies in the world!
Here’s a sampling [...]

I recognize that recommending a TED video is one of the slam-dunks of blogging, up there in taking-the-easy-way-out with pointing a friend to someecards for a laugh. But that’s not going to stop me from linking anyway. After all, I’m sure there are many of you out there who haven’t watched even one TED talk [...]

Dogfish Head (out of Delaware) is one of the few breweries in the country brewing big IPAs that can keep up with the Pacific Coast breweries (particularly those in San Diego!).
Plus, they have some awesome new artwork for their 75 Minute IPA bottle label:
 
 
 

Updates in Craft Beer Press Releases | Beernews.org.

Cross-posted from StartupSD.net.
What’s a chumby? The quick answer is this: chumby is many things, and the list never stops growing.
We last wrote about chumby in April 2008, when they raised $12.5 million in a Series B round in order to “accelerate growth of the company, and expand and broaden the Chumby Network to other screen-based [...]

Cross-posted from StartupSD.net.

In February of 2008, six guys in San Diego decided to fundamentally change the software community for the better.

You need only read the first sentence of OpenCandy’s About us page to learn a telling amount about the new company: one, they carry a grand vision for the impact their product will have on [...]

From MediaPost.com:
Thomson Reuters has partnered with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to launch the Media Cloud, a set of research tools for tracking online media coverage.
The joint effort is meant to bring some clarity to the vast tangle of news and information on the Web, attempting to answer questions about what [...]

I’m not talking about hipsters wearing “ironic” John Deere baseball caps.
PSFK recently posted (via Edible Brooklyn) about a nascent young farmers movement and its emerging name, Greenhorns.

Growing up in Iowa, I was surrounded by farming most of my life. At the same time, I was not raised in a farming family myself. So, [...]

Chris Pirillo interviewed a Microsoft employee about work on a project called “Salsa”. Watch the video and then ask yourself the following questions.

Would you consider the research and development Microsoft is doing on the social networking aspects of email communication to be innovative?
My answer: Yes. Just from this short video I can tell Microsoft is [...]