http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp The Space Elevator Companies' Blog Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:54:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1339 Three of Five.  Keep those comments coming!  Thanks.  Take care.  mjl _______ The Action Matrix is a system that allows the managing, processing, and correct labeling of enormous amounts of information garnered from the Challenges and Stakeholder parts of the Noumenia Process. By creating a spreadsheet of combined Stakeholders and Challenges ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1337 Second of Five.  Again, please post comments (either here, or tweet them to me: @mlaine) Thanks. Take care.  mjl _______ Thousands of pages have been written regarding the Hardware aspect of building an Elevator to Space.  But that is only one of five essential parts.  Despite the deep interconnection between the "fashionable" Hardware ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1334 The following is the abstract for one of five papers I am submitting for the www.SpaceElevatorConference.org.  I'd love to have some comments on it - grammar, typos, content - anything at all.  I value your opinion.  I have to turn it in tomorrow, so whatever suggestions you've got will have ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1332 Image by Space Elevator Guy via FlickrBelow is a long comment that I posted here: http://twurl.nl/gh2jefI think that Social Media is about to be a major factor in developing the Elevator to Space.  I’ve alluded to this before, and over the next few weeks, I think you will begin to ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1329 I wrote the following in response to Mark Reiboldt's “Mark to Market” blog.  I read his blog fairly often, for insights and education in the Venture Capital world.  And while it might not seem like ot, today, The VC environment is an important component to the revised LiftPort business plans. For ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1324 Image via WikipediaI’m in the midst of writing two epic-length posts… but in the meantime, two other things of interest…First, a couple days ago “Paul” wrote a series of posts related to the elevator.  I answered him, in depth, and thought you might like to see what I wrote.  I’ve ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1315 This is another edited-out element/addition to the Discovery Channel Blogs.  Talking about Peter Diamandis and the informal speech he gave to ISU. ______ Image by Getty Images via Daylife “Drinking Kool-Aid” is a real world example of the story of the pied piper – the man that played a tune ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1311 The following was cut/edited from the text I submitted to Discovery Channel Blogs.  It made sense to cut it, but I think there is a certain ‘richness’ if you’ve got the whole story.  So I am posting this “preamble” and “Space Kool-Aid” as separate posts – so that the Discovery ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1302 [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="203" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] The edited (much shorter) version of this post is here: http://twurl.nl/4zuun5  The Discovery Channel blog has a hard limit of about 600-800 words.  As some of you know, I'd rather write essays, than news-pieces, so I tend to run very long.  While I am ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1298 Yesterday, for the first time in almost a year, I posted to our blog…  more on why the delay, later.  If you read yesterday’s post, you’ll see that a lot is coming. I suspected that our blog was ‘dead’.  Dead, in the sense that there was little or no traffic on ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1282 This is the first draft (and my favorite version) of what went into the Discovery.com Blog.  The final version, edited and cut down is here: http://twurl.nl/omfjff) What I did on summer vacation – “Space Camp in Barcelona” This summer went by entirely too quickly.  I have never had so much fun or ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1281 I just posted a comment on this site: http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/01/2008-space-elevator-goals-1-kilometer.html Read the article, and then the comments. I hope this is helpful to other people. I really am concerned about the proposed competition and have expressed my opinions to Ben over at Spaceward. We had two 20 ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1275 I just posted a long response to Jeff Foust's website: Space Politics. I think it is worth reading, but rather than simply copy/paste it here, I think it is better if you go to his site, read the original post, and the following comments. http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/01/18/prospace-agenda-and-activism-issues/#comment-34675 On thing I can say - for sure ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1274  This morning, I got a great email from J, he should be the guy that gets some credit for getting this ball rolling, he emailed a bunch of people, initially. Nothing about space on last night's debate, but we didn't have much time to organize that. However, we have about ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1273 I just posted the following over at Jeff Foust’s site: http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/01/15/getting-space-questions-into-campaign-debates/ This blog post of his got me thinking, and I decided to take some action. Read the entry and the comments over there, and then commit to taking this same action yourself, please. This is a golden opportunity. My comments are ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1272 Del.Icio.Us updates for the day. Well, that code from Del.Icio.Us didn't work the way I hoped it would. It is constantly updating. As I add in new links, (8 new ones today) they rise to the top, and the links that I actually posted today, are shifting to the ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1271 I must spend at least 2-3 hours every day, reading and reviewing news on the ‘net. It is often illuminating and fascinating, and occasionally depressions and, rarely, inspirational. About a month ago, I got very serious about using Del.Icio.Us bookmarks to tag the news that I thought was ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1270 Happy New Year.... and here is wishing high hopes and a prosperous future to you and yours. Ad astra, y'all. http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1269 Moving, once again.  This time, when I land, I will be "stable" for a couple months.  I really do have some big news to impart, but I decided to wait on releasing it, until i had a consistant address, phone number, and email.  I knew this move was coming, but ... http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp/?p=1266