Just when we were getting used to the idea of using beet juice for “salting” roads, someone has reached into the fridge and pulled out another food item as an alternative deicing chemical – CHEESE! Crews in Washington have determined that the salt water left over as a byproduct of the cheese production process can [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Plowing Au Gratin
November 29th, 2008 
Pam Broviak 
Posted in Public Works, Transportation 
Tags: cheese, deicing, Public Works, salt, winter 
Comments OffThe Personal Rapid Transit Revolution
November 27th, 2008 Pam Broviak As the world searches for an answer to reducing the use of fossil fuels, cities are starting to look to the personal rapid transit (PRT) system as a potential solution. Lately, MISTER, a Polish-based company, has gained increasing notice for their innovative PRT system. MISTER is an acronym for Metropolitan Individual System of Transportation on [...]
Posted in Energy, Government in the Metaverse, Public Works, Public Works in Second Life, Public Works in the Metaverse, Transportation Tags: MISTER, podcar, PRT, second life Comments OffASCE Dipping Their Toe into Web 2.0
November 21st, 2008 Pam Broviak Today I received my usual e-mail from ASCE that displays headlines of stories related to civil engineering and was surprised to see ASCE was finally offering a widget for their content. Well now, that was progressive, and I love widgets -sleek, functional, look great on your Website. So I clicked on over to get my [...]
Posted in Civil Engineering, Public Works in Second Life, Social Media Tags: ASCE, Civil Engineering, Web 2.0, widgets Comments OffConferences, World of Warcraft, and Professional Achievement
November 16th, 2008 Pam Broviak Lately my mind has been preoccupied with thoughts of conferences (going to GreenBuild 2008), public works and engineering, World of Warcraft (WoW), family, and social media applications. With all that jumbled up inside there, it was inevitable that these subjects would start bumping into each other. One of these collisions involved this idea: “Blizzard wants [...]
Bumping into the DOT
November 15th, 2008 Pam Broviak As a civil engineer, the federal agencies I visit online are usually the DOT, EPA, and FHWA with an occasional click over to the USGS. Upon my entry into Second Life, I searched for these agencies within that virtual world and found nothing. The only federal agencies that had made it into the virtual realm [...]
Posted in Government in the Metaverse, Public Works, Public Works in Second Life, Public Works in the Metaverse, Transportation Tags: DOT, EPA, FHWA, NASA, NOAA Comments OffMuniGov 2.0 – Not Just a Buzzword Anymore!
November 11th, 2008 Pam Broviak Web 2.0, Web 3.0, virtual worlds: are these buzzwords and their related technologies something you really need to worry about? Studies, reports, and white papers seem to be saying “Yes.” And that is a big fat “yes” even if you work for government. In fact there are already a few of us government folks headed [...]
Posted in Gov 2.0, Government in the Metaverse, Public Works in Second Life, Public Works in the Metaverse, Social Media Tags: General Government, local government, MuniGov, MuniGov 2.0, second life Comments Off
