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  • Digg wants to face down top users before the sale, rather than after the sale. Let's say they sold out to Microsoft -- could you imagine the screaming if top Diggers got the kibosh from them?

    I think Digg "jumped the shark" a few months ago. Digg growth is stalled, precisely because of it's success. Digg's a great community, but what about the 95% of people who don't like top ten lists and Ron Paul? I think Digg wants to deep six the "top diggers" so that they can shift the climate to something that has broader appeal.

    Digg is orders of magnitude bigger tham competitors, but it faces two threats. One is a proliferation of specialized services, like Sphinn, that will develop their own specialized audiences and editorial voices. These will never get as big as Digg, but they may make more money per user because the audiences are focused around a topic. Another is that a service (like Mixx) might develop a formula that has more general appeal and eventually outgrow it.

  • It's time for a reassessment of nuclear power. The verdict is still out.

    The real safety issue with nuclear power isn't reactor accidents or nuclear waste, it's nuclear proliferation. There have been 30 years of technological development since nuclear reactors have been built in the US. These developments can make nuclear power cheaper, safer and more reliable, but they also make nuclear weapons more available to more parties.

    Nuclear waste, in particular, is not waste. Osama Bin Laden would love to have a few hundred pounds of it. Today's light water reactors can extract only about 2% of of the energy in natural uranium. Reasonable reserves of U235 aren't that much bigger than our reserves of oil, and aren't larger than our reserves of coal. A sustainable nuclear infrastructure would require some kind of breeder reactor combined with fuel reprocessing -- a much dirtier and dangerous operation than anything involved in today's fuel cycle.

    That said, oil depletion and global warming are clear and present dangers -- energy conservation will be the immediate free-market answer to our predicament, but we may not be able to convince the general public and decision makers to limit our standard of living in the long term.

  • I'd have rather seen the article from compete.com.

  • He's nice!

  • Dairy Farmers in upstate New York are building methane digesters that work on manure -- usually they burn the gas in a converted diesel generator. Dairies as small as 150 cows can profitably produce their own electricity and even have some left over to sell.

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