Because Web 2.0 celebrates the "noble amateur" over the expert, and because many search engines and Web sites tout popularity rather than reliability, Mr. Keen notes, it's easy for misinformation and rumors to proliferate in cyberspace.
Mr. Keen notes that hydro is a clean resource and says Idaho Power — a subsidiary of the publicly listed Idacorp that serves parts of Oregon as well as most of Idaho — is working to ramp up wind production and reduce the carbon intensity of its operations.
As Keen notes in the book, cancer will either kill you or you will kill it.
As tabloid values get a hammering, a ghastly, keening note of smug middle-class sanctimoniousness has been added.
Composed in a heated rush on commission from the arts patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the work opens with the cello strumming and plucking over a sustained, keening note cluster (D-E-F sharp).
That afternoon a singular keening note pierced the air, the call blackbirds used to contact the young as they fledged – either to entice them from the nest, or to call to them from their newfound territory once they'd flown.
On "Slow Slow Tune," from "Circuital," the band filters a classic soul sound through a lovely mesh of reverb and keening notes reminiscent of those on Radiohead's "OK Computer".
The main vocal melody, performed both on the record and during the BBC's live broadcast by the soprano Grace Davidson, is a loop that slowly descends in pitch, played against a series of high, keening notes that seem to reach for a place somewhere beyond the mortal world.
