Saturday, December 31, 2022
Saturday, April 09, 2022
preliminary actions - "Planning" in real time
approaching organization
of concerned citizenry
and information
to prepare with communicable accounts
for a digital platform
community problem solving
communication beginning at different levels of city or region like peer to peer (degree of separation) discussion and records
- including comparative costs by vendor
- working towards a budget with multiple items
- make use of existing infrastructure like community center spaces and traditional modes of communication like everyday talking, posters, and newspaper classifieds
- continue to keep records in account and collect them to signal readiness for more comprehensive digital platform
- allow larger scale projects to emerge from elimination by practical difficulties like overall costs and competitive procurement
projective accounts to discover and recall desirables
- include items of upgrade or expansion of potential currently apparently beyond budget
- discover new possibilities through travel, periodicals, and internet search including image search
- catalog possibilities before investigating costs, which often are given as an overestimate as negotiation towards mutual and even common benefit is never out of the question
reworking city or regional budgets
to check off smaller doable projects
- prioritize projects by practical urgency or popular support
- include acquisition of tools like street maintenance machinary or tendering for expertise by same manner of prioritization
learning to quantitatively scale a project
- eg. one water fountain = very small; 2500 water fountains = small to medium
remove asbestos (if many cases of related cancers found in an area compared to standards in other regions, then necessary ie. urgent) in 2000 dwellings and 150 public structures = medium to large
new road to replace a commonly used dirt road extending 50 miles = medium
replace all street lights in a region of a state with LED = medium to large
solar panel power generation for a town of 15000 = large
new highway system including several new segments and one new stretch = very large
- scale has to do with cost and viability
- but scale is not the same as urgency or importance;
therefore, comparing one town's needs and a city's calls is not appropriate -
using information about another locale's upgrades
as a reference to search for new appropriate upgrades for one's own locale
makes that data relevant and applicable
- some ways to qualify a project -
Urgent | Necessary | Required | ToDo
Important | Relevant | Future-oriented
towards acquisition and or procurement
Thursday, March 17, 2022
education
by making use of online resource and delivery
which are gaining in sophistication
to supplant regular curricula in public and private education
- consolidate into directory of indices and
legitimize techniques and content,
with the government bureau supporting private enterprises
coordinative capacity and services of the bureau
- to eventually arrive at accreditation of
distributed content and
net-based programs and platforms
infrastructure digital platform
[private] designs. projects
- needs > demand (general to specific)
- survey and catalog possibilities > selection
- call | bids
database, content management:
- standard upgrades
- special upgrades
Monday, February 14, 2022
differential divergent upgrades from character and propensity of locales and focii
[list:
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the tidying and identifying: refining the urban complexion -
- the refinement of infrastructural layers and components
- hygiene maintenance and restoration of current and heritage buildings and infrastructure
- local small scale projects: include in records on platform with citizen input
- diversification, care-cultivation and deepening sophistication of greenery: towards gardens as in towards Versailles and or towards nature reserves, or wild cultivated growth, or old gardens, or fruit trees scattered or in orchids, (... ) and towards secret gardens and towards botanical gardens and as well as urban niches
- reduction of old artificial material and or reanalysis of scale-width in path and trail planning
- mini artful and or environmental-future-oriented furnishings
- old fashioned regular cleaning with leased or bulk purchase of machinery of streets and roads and public grounds
scale of the infrastructural component to be upgraded or installed
- from 1 to 10
- determined at municipal scale, town locales, cities, beyond
- to furnish, to upgrade
Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Saturday, January 29, 2022
I.F. Robots | sqaudrons, swarms
Robots and Automation
flagging requirements for maintenance of permanent or semi-permanent nature
detection of problems not visible to unaided eye, eg. electric wiring problems underground
general regular maintenance against weather such as snow
engagement interfaces for monitoring and adjustment, etc
novel configuration of workforce and crews with mobility and diverse expertise
I.F. Urban power grids
Power grids remain relevant
Return of excess electric energy into grid for collection and redistribution
Distributed input eg. home solar panels result in a feedforward grid < req research
I.F.: The Highway
New Highways:
solar energy collection via friction and weather resistant disks where electricity is collected and fed back into the linear grid to be collected and redistributed or used to power features as tolling stations
irrigative management of rain and snow where runoffs are managed through processing possible
accommodation for autonomous vehicles including large cross-country trucks as well as augmented vehicles and segtors of performance highways for high-performance vehicles
scaled and regular charging stations (towards commercial, requiring public-private coalition) or in-motion charging roads (see Stockholm)
material of greater endurance and being smoother with less friction: varied material in spirit of prototypical ventures: novel or enhanced material or material combination
highly efficient overhead lighting with configurations w/ motion sensitivity where appropriate (and or possibly backlit lane partitioning) and intelligent lighting systems incorporating such as wi-fi, notification loudspeakers, weather monitoring, emergency incident monitoring and transmission
advancement of wireless transmitting signage, suitable for transmitting to receivers in human driving cars and to self driving vehicles; also adaptable for traffic and violations monitoring
support V2V, V2N, V2X transmissibility across new vehicles to speed communicability of incidents and conditions on highways
call for new designs for roadway waystations and lookout-observatory microports
new forms of roadways forming new types of connections between new types of nodes
greenaries to be cultivated at locations like vicinity into townships
campsites are possible for observing the dark sky
ev charging lots with amenities
various attributes:
smart systems: flooding detection and adjustment, driver wrong side detection, etc
kiosks: emergency or roadside assistance dispatch signaling, vending, waste disposal and recycling etc.
locii: weather and condition monitors
motion-sensitive lighting: for less used segments of roadway
points for consideration:
vicinity to urban places - eg. transfer of energy from solar energy collection
commercial or private enterprises offering vehicles on sharing-economic principles
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Saturday, July 10, 2021
at scale - "Planning" in real time
(the capital could stand in reserve as held by the federal government)
in the case of a dynamic and organized effort at scale
for infrastructure upgrades
in America
it's apparent that digital systems and administrative personnel could augment existing levels of government
-to collect proposals for consideration ie. where seed monies are to be placed... where federal funds are warranted
-for community dialog towards decisions - ie. municipal, city, state, regional
-to support organization of fund raising where federal funds are not warranted
-mediation where appropriate to businesses providing services
also, for the imagination of how infrastructure may be upgraded in a future looking orientation:
-fundamentals on what comprises infrastructure
-outline of expectations in what qualify for federal funding and what needs to be arranged for locally
-expanse of timetable to reach ultimate goal of upgrade at scale
>>>catalog of novel and or recommended infrastructure components
-identification of localities experiencing highest demand
> towards prototypal programs
consideration should be further given to things that support not only economies and life quality but also the environment
prototype digital system/platform at Detroit (?)a
Saturday, August 14, 2010
"the energy internet" | utne.com | sept-oct-2008 /p41 "toorrowland" by E.B.Boyd, from Conscious Choice
"
energy intelligence... refers to a system that manages power generation and use in a more efficient, responsive manner - 'the energy equivalent of the Internet," as Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn describe it in Earth: The Sequel (Norton, 2008). This web would draw electricity from where it is abundant and send it to where it is needed, reducing the demand for new power plants and offering more flexibility for incorporating renewable sources like wind and sun.
"... more than $434 million into energy intelligence in 2007... Virginia-based GridPoint, has developed a device - a refri[d]gerator/sic -sized 'smart battery' that utilities can install in customers' basement... stores and releases energy based on various factors, including cost and demand, which saves the user money by avoiding the power peaks that can tax the power grid.
"Other innovations give consumers information about how much power they're using at any given time... according to California (jan-feb 2008), people who had this information at their fingertips cut their energy use by a whopping 40 percent.
"Most important of all, concludes Mother Jones (May-June 2008), is the notion of decentralized power generation. Unlike coal and nuclear power, next-generation energy sources don't require any massive central investment. You can have your own power plant in a solar panel or flat-profile wind turbine on your roof. Linking illions of these power sources into regional networks will make our energy cleaner, safer, and steadier."
in related news...
"scientists iat the Atomic Energy Commission in France... reports Plenty... Piezoelectricity... thought that the pressure[of squeezing certain substances that let out a tiny burst electricity] of just 5000 large raindrops could produce enough power to fire up a 60-watt lightbulb."
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utne magazine , july-august 2009 / p19
"Who you pay is what you get"
"Pepperine University researchers... find 'Firms exhibit higher profitability when heir top executives make smart decisions. One of the smart decisions those executives have consistently made at successful Fortune 500 firms is to include women in the executive suite - so that regardless of gender, the best brains are available to continue making smart, profitable, decisions."
Sunday, September 25, 2005
same tools different use
> observe conditions -
People who have many active connections have them due to an inclination to meet others and, more importantly, an approach to do so. The approach is unique to each individual and develops over a series of interactions with others. It evolves in accordance to one's self-perception (and presentation) and response to the surrounding social conditions. Over a duration in which an individual is actively presenting herself and engaging with others, she develops a style of interaction that is particular to her. The "style" emerges as a unique method that belongs to the individual; this style, like the individual, may be undergoing continuous evolution.
> projective observation -
Users use and configure the same net-based communication tools in different ways, cultivating their own personal styles in presenting themselves and interacting with others, leading to their assuming qualitatively various positions and social relations.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
/folksonomy/
Folksonomy, or free keyword tags, engages in a demography extended in numbers and diversity for the communities to cultivate common interests and related resources upon concentrations as marked by words. It is a pooling of many perspectives on some common resource that, through clustering phenomena, reveals the general inclination.
note - The averaging that occurs boils down to singularities as represented by the tag networks. There is a similarity between this active process that includes large participating groups and the research discovery activities that rely on taking large samples as the dataset to analyze and establish trends and arguments supporting a stated hypothesis.
[rel:
getluky.net : open source free-tag module for php/mysql apps ;
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[uncurated links (wikipedia):
Gene Smith on folksonomy
Clay Shirky on folksonomy
Vanderwal on folksonomy
Alex Wright on folksonomy
Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?
Jordan Willms on Gardened hierarchical folksonomy
Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata by Adam Mathes Widely praised paper on folksonomy
Peter Van Dijck on Emergent i18n effects in folksonomies
Salon.com's popular introduction to Folksonomy
Bruce Sterling article on folksonomy from Wired
'Folksonomies: Power to the People'
Flickr and "folksonomies"
Folksonomizer: generic folksonomy service
Anthropology News article on folksonomy.
Panel from ETech 2005 - With Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us),
Stewart Butterfield (Flickr), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) and Clay Shirky.
UGWiki entry for Folksonomy
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