Buildings

The term has been a buzz word in my circle for quite a long while now.

And to some extent, I think it may have meant many things to many different people, depending on your role or function in the bigger game of conducting our affairs in and around buildings.

For example, someone not long ago suggested they had done something under the "sustainable" program in switching foam coffee cups out for a more environmentally friendly option. She was right. Maybe not so much at the local steakhouse, but once in awhile.

(A friend, KellyJo blogged about sustainable beef not long ago)

The term gets tossed around fairly like loose change amongst us building types, be it architects, engineers, building owners, folks in the energy biz, or skilled trades have all heard it in numerous trade journals, seminars, at the supply houses, and on the street.

In the building design, construction, and operations gig we are typically talking about energy related matters - often renewable such as solar or wind being part of the discussion. Other technologies to save energy are related to the conversation such as capturing waste heat, operational dynamics such as thermostat set back and lighting controls, and even precooling the thermal mass at night when energy is cheap (AKA load shifting), managing water resources, even such things as appliances, computers, printers, copiers and other plugged in type of loads.

Let's explore blogging, personal web pages, buildings and a web Integrated World 101?

Last Spring (2006) MySpace announced the marriage of 60,000,000 personal web page customers with a traditional TV and movie channel in MyTV (not to mention one if not THE premier world wide provider of traditional news delivery). This has / had the potential to do what had not been done before. For those who don't know it, Rupert Murdoch pioneered satellite delivery of worldwide communications. Oh yes did we establish that he sells a few newspapers too?

Anyway CNN/Time Warner and AOL tried to merge the two domains of Web content and traditional news and entertainment legacy media to HUGE SEVERE financial outcome (Ted Turner lost something on the order of over $6 BILLION US in that deal).

Rupert and NewsCorp bought about 30,000,000 MySpace accounts for around $580,000,000 US and that account base nearly doubled within 6 months (read that as ad revenue doubling in six months) or 100 PERCENT GROWTH in AD SALES in first 6 months if one follows the numbers in simplistic fashion.

Current MySpace account base currently reported as over 143,000,000.

To look at this deeper we will need to explore the netherworld basics of Login security, the likely next big thing of Biometrics, and also the behind the scenes manufacturing and utility and energy automation infrastructure in the digital automated world, and the inherent vulnerabilities that go along with it. (Follow up with this later).