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...write about anything, often topics of great personal meaning to me. A typical entry will run 2,000 to 5,000 words, and I vet all the comments so we aren't plagued with the half-witted immaturity of so many blogs. I also respond top a lot of them. A discussion of Evolution vs. Creationism has so far topped 3,000 literate, thoughtful comments across three entries. Darwin is one of my heroes...
...little success. They will turn to Twitter because its annual user growth rate will probably hit 1,000%. But how does a marketer reach people who do nothing but send tiny 140-character messages into cyberspace? Trying to put a square peg into Twitter won't work, but a lot of capital will be wasted in proving that Twitter is a bad fit for advertising...
...doubt too many banks will want to own a lot of commercial properties that are empty," said George Raitu, an economist for the National Association of Realtors...
...benefits of the smart grid is the ability to manage the electrical load; today utilities need to have enough capacity to meet rare days of peak demand, but if a smart grid could smooth out those peaks, it might reduce the need for new power plants.) "We invested a lot in this technology," says Lewis Hay, CEO of FPL. "We're going to make it happen first...
...fact, the initiative might never have gotten off the ground without a lot of help from Washington. Half the $200 million price tag of the first phase of the project will come from federal stimulus spending, and there's more to come. Along with the $3.3 billion in grant money set aside by the Department of Energy for smart-grid tech, another $615 million is set to be spent on projects for energy storage and monitoring. To Washington, building the smart grid is about more than energy - it's about creating jobs, an investment that will stimulate the economy today...