New York Times: Part of a flyer, available from The Utility Reform Network, a consumer advocacy group, that residents can place on their old, analog smart meters in California. Smart electric meters — those digital devices favored by utilities and efficiency advocates for their contribution to a more precisely and economically measured, monitored and managed electric grid — got a big boost last year with a $3.4 billion injection of stimulus cash. But as I write in Saturday`s Times, small and vocal pockets…