In the past we blogged about Sarah Palin’s reach with women voters in key swing states. Tonight’s debate will be a turning point for undecided voters who are basing their election decision on what is said and presented tonight. A Washington Post-ABC News poll shows 6 in [...]
Continue Reading →After too many late nights wrapping up bug testing and deploying production servers the folks here have Maker! and an upgraded Finder! ready to go. It is a great feeling to get a first version of the full intent of GeoCommons out to the public. There are still lots of enhancements and [...]
Continue Reading →As the continuing turmoil in the financial sector and a mind boggling trillion $ bailout are together contributing to the general feeling of economic gloom and doom across the nation, the distressing news of a big bank failure last Thursday made it worse. The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), announced that it had [...]
Continue Reading →Tesco is one of the most successful grocery chains in the world. The store is based in the UK but has recently ventured into the U.S. market. Tesco has created Fresh and Easy Supermarket stores that are a close relative of a Tesco Express in the UK.
These stores are [...]
Continue Reading →The biggest story in political news lately has been Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for Vice President of the United States of America. To understand how McCain’s choice in VP could impact the election we need to look at a few issues, including demographics in the key swing states; [...]
Continue Reading →Urban Mapping has created a multi layer paper map called Panamap. Powered by their “MapAction Technology,” users can view different layers of the map in different angles. The map provides three images that “are interlaced by alternating horizontal strips from each. The resulting compound image is calibrated to a specially designed polymer lens [...]
Continue Reading →Decisions are made by those who show up. Since the State Department is responsible for promoting peace and stability in regions of vital interest, the Secretary of State has to show up in a region to promote diplomacy there. The travels of a Secretary of State thus reflects the foreign policy [...]
Continue Reading →The wild stock market run of the 90’s and the more recent boom in the housing market share a similar property: irrational exuberance. In his book “Irrational Exuberance”, Yale Economics Professor Robert Shiller describes the phenomenon “as a situation in which news of price increases spurs investor enthusiasm, which spreads by psychological contagion [...]
Continue Reading →With so much of talk about energy policies on the Presidential campaign trail, I decided to look into the nuclear option that both the candidates support to different degrees. Lo and behold I found a listing of nuclear power plants in Finder!. Now that we have all these nuclear power plants [...]
Continue Reading →Sean mentioned in his blog about how pooling together of efforts by Andrew, Sean, Bill et. al, the Fortifacture/MapuCommons folks were able to bring to you in record time the near-real time pollution data from Beijing. As we were working on this, we realized that there is a huge difference in the perceptions between the [...]
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