So I am working hard to pull the details together for the 2nd Data Sharing Summit. This is not an easy task given it is a risk to make commitments to venues and vendors – to make it possible to host the event.
This is an option that would give more time to organize [...]
I wonder if this applies to the death of an online persona too?
We shall see….
From Slashdot:
“Brandon Erickson has an interesting post about an experiment on players’ emotional reactions to killing and being killed in a first-person shooters (FPS) with a group of students who played James Bond 007: Nightfire while their facial expressions and physiological [...]
This claim made me wonder if there was any prior art in the Liberty work that might apply. Or if this would affect any identity system that allowed for multiple roles for people.
From Slashdot:
Blackboard, the dominant learning management system (LMS) maker, has won its initial suit against Desire2Learn. Blackboard gets $3.1 million and [...]
From Better Better Than Free:
The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it…..
When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.
When copies are super abundant, stuff which can’t be copied becomes scarce and valuable.
When copies are free, you [...]
I have a posts in the wings about my experience of ’security’ at Olympic like events – I participated in ‘the system’ for a few years of my life while on the Canadian National Water Polo Team.
I just found on slashdot. The restrictions they are putting on athletes freedom of speech. [...]
The Huffington Post had a new feature on their website the FundRace. It is an interactive map of the whole country that lets you search addresses, zip codes, cities, names, occupations and employers to find out who is giving to political candidates.
This is the map of my neighborhood. My husband and I are talking [...]
On February 21 I will be facilitating the Online Community Unconference East.
I think the topic of user-centric identity will definitely come up. Please feel free to join in this gathering for online community practitioners – managers, developers, business people, tool providers, investors – to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online [...]
I guess this is sort of like ‘game on’ in street hockey.
A week ago my blog disappeared. Apparently it was hacked to death. It is now back and running WP 2.x. I would recommend if you are still on 1.x to do the upgrade to prevent this fate happening to you.
This past week the Identity Commons Working Groups 2007 Q4 Reports and January News were published. I worked in my catalytic role to get all the Stewards of the 8 groups of IC to turn in their reports. There is also news from many of the soon to be IC working groups.
This is [...]
As a new twitterer – the constant stream of error messages has been well intriguing. Not having known the service before this – I guess I just thought it was normal.
TechCrunch has an interesting take on what is going on. It says that NTT is investing in Twitter and that they moved their hosting [...]
Learning about the MSFT – Yahoo! bid makes me ill.
From the NYT:
The bottom line: Yahoo will get sold to Microsoft.
Why my confidence? Because Microsoft is paying more than anyone else would be willing to pay for Yahoo. The bid is $44.6 billion, or $31 a share, in cash and stock. Thursday, Yahoo closed at [...]