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on Women talking at technology conferences

Chris Messina has a good post up about women and the Future of Web applications (the conference and the tools).
As far as I’m concerned, one of the greatest opportunities to seize the future of web apps is to cement the necessity of diversity in our processes and in our thinking, not for the sake of [...]

Data Pollution and our age

Bruce writes an interesting essay about our lack of understanding about the potential toxic effects of data. Making the analogy that like our for fathers who polluted the air without understanding the long term implications we are creating data pollution and not understanding what is unfolding. This analogy is most interesting to consider. [...]

Sense Making for Internet Identity

Eugene Kim has launched a Sense Making webinars to help people understand and act on complex, current topics related to collaboration.
The first one will be about Internet Identity and Gabe Wachob will be “coaching” it.
Digital identity has always posed unique social and technical challenges centered around security, privacy, and convenience. The Internet has [...]

Identity Dinner Seattle – Tuesday 24th

For those of you following me on Twitter I have been on quite a road trip the last two weeks. It continues – today I am headed to Portland where I will be participating in Recent Changes Camp (a wiki unconfernece) and then I will be heading to Seattle for a few days.
While there I [...]

Participatory Panopticon strikes Michael Phelps

I have written about the participatory panopticon before (we live in public, sousveilance, cia torture taxi’s, Jamais Casio @ accelerating change, Condi caught) – but more in the abstract about stories in the news. This is the Huffington Post article about the photo of michael phelps.
This story strikes more [...]

Facebook joins OpenID Board

Facebook joins OpenID board – with commitment to improved user experience.
It is our hope that we can take the success of Facebook Connect and work together with the community to build easy-to-use, safe, open and secure distributed identity frameworks for use across the Web. As a next step in that effort, we will be [...]

Dinners Next week in Boston and NYC

I am heading out to the east coast tomorrow. I thought while I was there it would be fun to have dinner with the Boston and NYC identity community folks.
We have set up an free EventBrite to just RSVP for the dinners.
Boston, Monday Feb 9th at Mifune in Arlington, drinks at 6:30 dinner [...]