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Doc just gave me this to read about Drupal (and every open [...]
I was thinking about the participatory panopticon concept the other day when reading this article in the local weekly paper about amateur plane spotters tracking the movements of the CIA planes around the world that are moving torture victims to of shore destinations. The cover story was ‘Torture Air’.
Jamais (the originator of the term participatory [...]
I found a reproduction of the cartoon here.
I just thought it would be fun to find the real thing since the IIW logo is a take of on this.
I have been reading Sherry Turkles book Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. The ironic thing is that it was written in 1995 before the Web really took off and became mainstream. I am going to finish it over my retreat. So far she has gotten me to reflect [...]
This headline gave me a big chuckle today on the news stand. I thought given the seriousness of what is going on in DC you also might enjoy reading this news just out from the The Onion (which is even cooler cause it is built on Drupal).
The recent leak revealing Santa Claus to be [...]
The best explanation of the NSA wire tapping situation seems to be that they are using some new kind of technology that FISA would not approve of. More can be read about this here.
This is just plane Orwellian.
The UK will be tracking the movements of all cars on the roads.
I saw Syriana for the third time in three days yesturday.
Remember back at the internet identity workshop in October? In the closing circle when everyone was talking about books they recommend, I floated the idea that we might have an identity movies/films to broaden the public dialogue about identity issues and raise social [...]
Ed Batista posted this link to a GAP ad that was not widely distributed. The staff and customers destroy the store. It is quite entertaining.
The GAP Identity today:
The Gap has become the transparent background music of fashion–the aesthetic you never see because it’s everywhere (and thus effortless to imitate, undercut or adapt.) I like [...]
Who are you, what do you do, who are you loyal to and why? These deeper questions of identity weave throughout the narrative of Syriana. Yesturday I saw the movie for the second time (the first time was Saturday). As I do everything these days – I kept ‘identity’ in mind and it [...]
To follow up on the Orwell post…
Daniel Solove has a great book out about digital identity and the challenges that we face today with it. He likens the situation we face with our digital dossiers to that of The Trial as opposed to they typical Orwellian metaphor – often apt but not the [...]
My good friend had a Bush Cheney sticker on his car bumper…I did a double take…he didn’t vote for Bush, they are not running again…ahh the year 1984. Subtle but to the point. The latest wire tapping scandal is not cool. Mitch Radcliff sums it up well.
Bush says he signed NSA wiretap order
Adds he OK’d [...]
Today I got this note…
I was surprised to find you I was searching out my 5 year old granddaughter’s name thinking I would purchase her name as a domain for her.
A five year old with my name will not get to be =kaliya oh well.
I am buying up some other =’s names today [...]
Yesterday we had the Kum-by-ya sing along lead by Marc Canter for 40 companies on board with Structured Blogging/Content ad hoc open standards.
Salim was a big leader behind the effort and started blogging yesterday too at – You’ve Got Ismail.
Mary mentioned I-Tags open standard Drummond had just got the spec up… [...]
So we have a great time at the workshop yesterday. Eugene gave a great over view of “the problem” and why pinging a third party identity broker/provider would be a good evolution.
Johannes gave a great overview of the space URL based identifiers (YADIS – currently looking for a new name), WS* (Microsoft) and Liberty Alliance.
Dave [...]
From Otis:
Here is an example of what I’m caling a “spref”:
218.22.246.34 – – [13/Dec/2005:03:11:21 -0500] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 44403 “http://bontril.threethreethree.us/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC; AtHome021)
The geekier portion of the readership will recognize this is a line from the web server log file. See that bolded URL? That’s “spref”, a fake referer [sic] that [...]
This is my penance for spelling Marc’s name with a k yesterday.
I posted this on the Identity Gang list back in October. Dick Hart made the assertion that there was no such thing as post post-modernism. I had to chime in.. because it does indeed exist and it relates to identity.
Modernism has its origins in the enlightment ‘rationalism’, absolute
structure and finding ‘the truth’.
Post-Modernism is a critique [...]
James had this reflection about the year and it got me thinking about mine.
I dido on the “One weird stressful year”
I started out last year working as an Evangelist for Identity Commons 1.0. It was clear that the money was running out and I was not sure what I was going to do next. [...]
Here it is…
“Google could easily become the poster child for a national public movement to regulate data collection,” says Jeff Chester, head of the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocate.
Unbeknownst to many users, privacy advocates like Chester say, Google’s technology gives it enormous power to collect data on the interests and online habits of [...]
While we will be hanging out at Syndicate this week singing “Kum Bah Ya” about new “standards” for micro content and structured blogging and the announcement about i-tags. There is an impending “identity powder keg” that could go off this week in Califorina (and across the country) with the pending execution of Tookie Williams [...]
This is the title of an article just out this weekend in Network World.
It is by David Mcaplin a senior architect at Epok. Here is an exerpt.
Metadata isn’t limited to alternative identifiers. Imagine that an XRI-identified resource is a technical manual, available as a PDF or Word document and retrievable from a variety of mirrored [...]
I was reading this months issue of wired the one with the smilie Oil blobs on it. I came across this little article about Pandora. It is the GREAT Juke box program. You enter a song you like and it uses a mathematical algorithm to find other music by different artist that is [...]
Since working in this field I have begun to see all things through the lens of Identity. It is really deep philosophically – touching on the deepest aspects personal meaning – those things that we identify with. I found a book in used book store called Your Identity Zones: Who Am I? Who are [...]
This news just out.
Yahoo Bought Delicious.
Now I am not sure how I feel about this. Now they own two of the major tagging sites.
These are my tags on my photos and my bookmarks. How can we get out of pattern giant identity silos buying up other services? I want an integrated Identity on [...]
The Internet Identity Workshop presents an
Informational Morning for Developers

Hosted by Doc Searls,Mary Hodder and Kaliya Hamlin
Monday, December 12, 2005 9-12 noon, with lunch from 12-1

Canton Dim Sum @ 655 Folsom St in San Francisco.

Cost $20 for lunch (PLEASE RSVP HEREas the Canton Restaurant has been kind enough to give us the space if we all [...]
Andy Dale lead a great workshop on XDI for implementors yesterday. The newbies there really came away with a good understanding of XRI and XDI – how they work and how they might use them. Phil Windley came out from Utah and blogged the workshop so you can read about it if you [...]
Mary Hodder, Identity Woman Kaliya and Doc Searls are hosting an Internet Identity Workshop informational morning on December 12th at the Canton Won Ton at Folsom and Third in downtown San Francisco. It is before the Syndicate conference workshops that start in the afternoon.
The event starts at 9 goes to 12 with [...]
Yesterday I was in Barns and Noble about to leave the when the cover of this week’s Economist leapt out at me. Canada’s Wintery Election + a 14 page special report. I leapt at the opportunity to read 14 well written articulate pages about my country of origin. I got an ‘identity [...]
I found this post on Life Hacker about ‘future proofing your e-mail addresses’. This is one of the frames we use to talk about digital identity too. They have a bunch of tips and in the comments someone pointed to this service Net Identity.

They lease out sub-domains of popular last names; i.e. john@smith.net . [...]