www.aps.com/greenrates

how to do research

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com//features/2010/1005.mcgann.html
seriously, read about John Dougherty's intensive and rigorous work

http://www.moonglowcandles.net/index.html

world map

http://mapsof.net/
for best results try searching on a term such as "japan"
this will take you to a Japan Maps section (via a search link)
(the web is so weird ... just zooming in on Japan from the home page gives a different result)

http://www.giantrobot.com/

http://www.wampserver.com/en/ (which is listed, but not properly linked to, at http://downloads.joomlacode.org/docmanfileversion/1/7/4/17471/1.5_Installation_Manual_version_0.5.pdf, which originates at http://www.joomla.org/, on the getting started page, which is on the about joomla page)

http://www.neotys.com/index.php?lang=en (from google ad wamp server home page)

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1078141

startupcapital

What is your company going to build?

News archiving on the web.

List for each founder there, name, birth year, college and degrees earned.

Tom Sunderland, 9-22-1960, Hampshire College, New York Restaurant School, ASU, no degrees earned.

What does each founder bring to this project? What is each founders best skill?

Brings to project: 1000 notebook pages, 100 items of on line documentation.

Best Skill: dreaming.

What is new or different about the project you are working on?

For whatever reason, no one seems to be doing it in a significant way.

What makes you company special vs. your competition?

Going to edges.

What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make doesn't exist yet?

Endless tedious work to make sense of the news.

What is the plan to make money?

advertising, liscencing

Have you identified all competitors? Is Google one of them J?

I've been studying the web site at The Arizona Republic. I'm a regular reader at Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News. I'm vaguely aware of the on line New York Times, a couple of London papers, Asahi Shinbun.

What websites have you built in the past or companies have you worked for that you contributed greatly to?

Every, outside of some experimental work, that I have created on line is at http://easygateatanurbanistsblogs.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html.

How long has all the founding members worked together and known each other?

I did (do) work with a psychologist for twenty years to develop my method, and I've lived proximate to ASU for twenty five.

What technologies will you use to build your project?

Ruby.

Have you started working on the project? If so, how far along are you?

Strictly conceptual work, though documented to some extent at http://auarizonarepublicindex.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html.

Can we see it? What is the URL?

http://auarizonarepublicindex.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html is, in part, a demonstration of concept

What is your time frame for building a alpha project? beta?

5 months, 6 months

from wikipedia: "Alpha, both as a symbol and term, is used to refer to or describe a variety of things, including the first or most significant occurrence of something." Sure, three months is fine.

If your exit strategy is to be purchased, who is most likely to buy you?

can't say as I intend to be purchased, let's see, the Swiss media conglomerate.

What would you sell your project of after you got a beta done in the 3 months given?

sorry, don't understand the question

Can someone else duplicate your project? If so how fast could they do it?

Fast, I guess.

Is your project able to be patentable?

yes

SWOT Analysis

Strengths:

Reading, writing, drawing, graphical composition, color theory, data association, pixel theory, business practice (theory of).

Weaknesses:

Isolation, innertia, shyness, smoking, lack of credentials, limited technical proficiency.

Opportunities:

Make web news extremely popular.

Threats:

What is SWOT analysis?

Do you have a company formed at this time? Is so what is the structure?

No.

What is your commitment to the project?

Total.

Have any of the founders signed non-competes or IP agreements?

No.

Have people other than the founders worked on the project?

To some extent, yes.

Have you used open source projects? Please list, including libraries and frameworks.

html, css, php, javascript, second life, freebasic, blogger, facebook, only the last two with any proficiency

What is the coolest thing on the Internet that you have seen in the past 6 months?

It's not that cool but, http://files.onearmedman.com/games/petlab/kimono/ ... and this is pretty cool: http://geoplan.asu.edu/bsp.

I tried to fill out this survey a couple of years ago, and couldn't do it. I kind of looks like my work since then has worked out, because today I felt pretty comfortable with it. I submitted it and got a confirmation it had been recorded.

I had gone to endeavorip first, another company, local, I've looked at, and found it discouraging, though I might consider working with them on the organizational issues. That's the big push right now: finding partners in industry.

frame mortiser

I've been working on my mortising system for making frame molding. It's going to be a little circular saw that runs on a track. A web search on specialty saw blades turned up what looks like a very fine manufacturer! http://www.ravikengineers.com/hss-saw-blades.html.

Now, I want a small blade, maybe 4 inches in diameter, or even 3, with small teeth, mounted on the shaft of a small motor, a longish shaft, and the motor has to be tough. RPMs will be decidedly modest. The idea is to cut under gentle pressure and not too fast. I want a motor that will sustain, say, 60rpm, under a range of loads, if that's possible, or one that will sustain a range of rpms, say, from 60 to 120, under a range of loads, say 1/4 once feet to 1 once foot of torque.

Here's how I derived the above: Cutting speed will be a function of cutting pressure, blade speed, and depth of cut. Let's say we apply 4oz of pressure, making a 1/4" deep cut in soft wood, and turn the blade at 60rpm. How fast would the blade cut, say, in inches per second. Now, applying a certain amount of pressure to the blade in a cut of a certain depth will produced a certain amount of torque, which is the amount of torque the motor must deliver to maintain the desired cutting speed, and then, for safety, I want the motor to slow as more torque is applied, and stop when the torque applied doubles.

Please note that the above calculations are not correct. They don't properly account for blade diameter. Let's see, a 4 inch blade means a 2 inch radius, so pound feet of torque is one sixth the rotational resistance of a blade uder the specified load (cutting pressure).

So, how many amps is the motor going to require? Now, ultimately, what I want is a blade mounted on the motor, a power supply with on off button, a cuttoff switch, pressure activated, and installed, and the motor on a sliding mount. I might be able to assemble the parts myself, but I wonder if these guys can do it all for me - the calculations, the parts, all ready to go.

I should add that I plan to have the rails and supports made locally from wood. I'm working up the design in the last few days. (This plan has been on my mind for years.) Vaguely, but always, the plan is to market the device to crafters. I just have to talk to my ip guys about it. I don't know enough about what to do.

I finally had to search on "planning" to find Planning. I did find it, though, and it's absolutely great. Again, I feel at home, and the site is packed with interesting stuff and very welcoming.

Ethics is intertwined with these projects I'm working on, as an issue they address: how to build in an ethical way. Looking at the course documentation, I felt pleasantly at home, and moved, partly in the sense that I felt I could work with the material described, and then as a sense that it is relevant, even intriguingly similar to the approach I've been taking.

look at this beautiful page

All the undergraduate degrees and minors look very interesting, but this masters program catches my eye.

wow

New College, now. I wonder what that could mean?

home advantage

I started to wonder, though, if maybe I should be looking closer to home. I thought I should at least return to my earlier project of familiarizing myself with the curriculum at ASU.

new school for general studies

A thrill ride of a page, I love the degree programs, and the online learning tab is key, and fantastic.

new school

Casting about for ideas about where to look, I hit on The New School, and surfed over there. A baffling array of abundance. I chose The New School for General Studies.

anurbanistsresearchnotes

Contemplating what to do with all my notes, and receiving baffled responses from people outside of the profession, I hit on the idea of submitting it in academic circles. Several abbreviated efforts at studying college web sites went by the by, but with the blog coming together, it began to make sense to look again.