So I have been off and about the world for a few weeks. I am finally back in the bay area and trying to recover from the nasty cold that I caught while at Accelerating Change. I had a great week at Web of Change except I was fighting the cold. I [...]
This was a great talk by Cory from Second Life.
Games will Save the Planet!!! How? Playing games improves the capacity to critically filter the increasing volumes of information we are exposed to. Games give you a place to practice performance before competence. As you learn new skills you can also maintain [...]
From Dr. Amen: Brain protection is essential. The Brain is very soft like tofu and the skull is really hard. Brain injuries matter and we need to take care of young brains (like not let kids play football).
The conference took a spiritual theme at the end with the presentation by the chair of [...]
And now for something completely different. Jair sent it to me thought you would all enjoy the laugh I got.
Please do click through here. You will laugh out loud for sure.
Highlights from Joi Ito at Accelerating Change:
The open Network means that bottom up and edge stuff can happen. He is on the board of ICANN – ‘it is broken system but fixable’ you can go there and participate (I plan to do just that this year in December in Vancouver). He asserted that “if [...]
The presentation by Tom M Malone asserted that the technology stack includes organizational forms was refreshing. He mentioned BioTeams.com
This is the stack
* Organizations
* Application Software
* System Software
* Hardware
Early stages of an increase in human freedom in business that may in the long run may be as an important change for business as democracy [...]
Mark Finnern is the leader of the Bay Area Future Salon and runs the SAP Developer Network.
He talked about the enigma of modern compulsory schooling.
1. Great person
2. Great citizen
3. Somethings special
There is a fourth today to bring them up to be good consumers.
What do we learn in modern compulsory education
1. Stay in class.
2. Turn your [...]
Esther Dyson did a great thing opening her talk “I am going to lead this time like the internet – If you don’t like it go somewhere else. Do your own thing. This is what the net allows you to do.”
Governance on the Net – The best way to regulate systems is for the [...]
I really enjoyed this conference – the people were GREAT! and I learned some new stuff.
Accelerating Change is put on by the Acceleration Studies Foundation. They are working on Awareness, Education, Research (Technological Road-mapping in particular) and Advocacy.
They are going to start doing Future Salon’s ‘in-world’ in Second Life. With this and other [...]
I am blogging from the soon to be open Accelerating Change Conference.
Andy gave me a ride down here and we talked about the announcement last week of DataTao.
DataTao is going to be an interoperable data hub for user controlled data. DataTao is primarily about programmatic access to an individual’s data and only has as much [...]
On Wednesday Night I attended my first DorkBot – San Francisco. It was great to be in a room full of cool geeks.
Mark Pesce also spoke about evolutions happening in swarming.
Informational Swarms are the most efficient way to get the most information to the most people.
Knowledge Swarms [ Information + Context] Wikipedia is [...]
I am really tired of trying to login to social text wiki’s. I always have to reset my password.
Hopefully Ross and Peter will adopt some open standards (like i-names) for login to their system so I don’t have to keep going through this pain any more.
Danah Boyde has a great post about Face Book – (an online social network only for those how are in college.) This paragraph really stood out for me because it highlights the social phenomena that those of us who typically work in digitial identity do not really ‘do’ – DIGITAL IDENTITY PERFORMANCE…
The Facebook is situated [...]
Surveillance society quietly moves in
It’s a well-known dirty trick in the halls of government: If you want to pass unpopular legislation that you know won’t stand up to scrutiny, just wait until the public isn’t looking. That’s precisely what the Bush administration did Dec. 13, 2003, the day American troops captured Saddam Hussein.
Bush celebrated [...]
Marc Canter’s Law #1 has been published.
Canter’s Law #1:
- It is not a bad thing to make everyone happy. It sometimes requires compromises, but at the end of the day – by getting around the format Wars – we all benefit.
- So though we understand that having too many formats may confuse or muddy [...]
I was just surfing around some posts on tecosystems and this one popped out at me. LOWER BARRIERS TO ENTERY. Hopefully we can all heed his advice.
Eric Hall just pointed me to a great post by dizzyd of Passel about the challenges of doing a new from the ground up protocol/technology and how you communicate to the rest of the world what it does. Some learnings in there for all of us in this identity space. Hopefully during the Internet [...]
Condi Returns to D.C. After Bloggers and ‘Post’ Expose Vacation
This story is an interesting one because it shows what a citizenry empowered with almost omni-present communication tools can do to share information and build a coherent picture of one person’s movement over time creating the participatory panopticon. I wonder how much citizen surveillance [...]
“If government cannot inform, there is no government.”Burce Sterling highlights this as the pull quote from the below. I would tend to agree and wonder how it informs our work in considering governance for the next layer of the internet.
This is from Laurie Garrett “the emergent-disease guru” who’s comments in an e-mail titled Hurricane [...]
I have been watching the unfolding of the Katrina disaster. It makes my stomach churn to learn about how badly FEMA and other federal agencies bumbled this whole thing. We clearly have major human well being and community well being issues to deal with here. This interview of the head of Jefferson County [...]
I just found a great post about Nathan Torkington creator of odio.us the Gateway to Web 2.0 Riches. Just go there and scroll up and down the Web 2.0 elevator pitches. The are really funny. I bet you he gets a lot of them these days as the producer of OSCON.
The original [...]
A day after my computer died, Bob Blakley e-mailed me to let me know he had started blogging (and that it was in part my doing) for blogging his talk at Catalyst.
Here is his first post – Identity is a Story.
my comment: Indeed it is. I wrote a great resume story when I applied to [...]
I am back after a bit of an unintended break. While at BarCamp my external brain went into coma [my computer died] someone asked if it had a death by stickers. I don’t think so but judge for yourself – side 1 – side 2. I took it all in karmic stride –
I needed a [...]
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