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I really enjoyed David Berlind's whiteboard session on C.R.A.P. - Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection.

You can drag and drop stuff to share with friends. Does the BBC have yet another friends list of mine? Can we get some open standards for friends lists. It seems like the kind of stuff they are expecting us to download will just not happen with the level of broadband in this country...so much lower then the rest of the world.

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Bush says he signed NSA wiretap order
Adds he OK'd program more than 30 times, will continue to do so
In acknowledging the message was true, President Bush took aim at the messenger Saturday, saying that a newspaper jeopardized national security by revealing that he authorized wiretaps on U.S. citizens after September 11.

"Yesterday the existence of this secret program was revealed in media reports, after being improperly provided to news organizations. As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have, and the unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk."

Look at that. It's disgusting.
The President broke the law, based on repeated rulings of the courts for decades that prohibit surveillance of U.S. citizens within the United States without court orders. Now, he's trying to blame the messenger who revealed his continued flaunting of civil rights. Just more of the same hypocrisy, the same fear-mongering, the same wiping of his nose on the Constitution.

Mary Hodder shared here use of identity for her video community.
Tom from Opinity shared how they are using identity for their reputation network.
Marc Canter shared his use of identity (specifically SXIP) in GoingOn across networks and communities.
Chirs Allen shared some use cases for networks where he needs identity.
I closed out by talking about the new identity commons 'clear focus.

the developers who attended expressed their interest in being there and we broke for lunch.

All had a good time and much networking happened.

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 have lunch there, but we need an accurate count by Sunday at noon).

If you are a developer working on a application that has folks login - this is a morning for you.

Doc Searls will begin the day giving an overview of the identity landscape. He and others will answer the question:
* Why do identity systems matter when building new systems and tools?

We are bringing together a spectrum of folks who have been working on developing identity systems and tools. Identity Developers will share their work, basics and best practices to date to get started exploring integrating identity into these applications. These include YADIS, LID, Open ID, i-names/XRI, SXIP, among others.

Developers of applications who have included identity into their services and tools will share briefly how they've done it. Application developers will hear from and meet with identity developers to ask questions.

Event Info
Detailed Agenda
and RSVP here.
(sorry for the 2nd post on this blog but it finally sound.

The event starts at 9 goes to 12 with lunch after that. Cost is $20 for lunch.
It will be a very interactive event and you will get to meet all the key identity developers and an overview of options to build identity into systems.

You will need to sign up on the wiki.

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Bruce Kushnick, of Tele-the-truth, (said with at Brooklyn, Italian accent),
has come up with some new Vocab to describe what is going on.

The Telecom Act giveth and the FCC taken away. The definition of 'deregulation' is -- those with the most amount of money and influence win!

Deregulation was 'open the network to competition'. Now 'deregulate the wires' means deregulate the incumbent from previous laws to open the network to competition.

I think it's time for some new terms.

Terminator-egulate --- To kill previous regulation

Fib-erize --- To continue to promise fiber optics to the press
release.

Liaregulation or Sayanythingulation. --- The uncommittment of
whatever you committed to

Derrieregulation --- Sit on your ass, claiming you're doing
everything in your power to compete.

Astroturegulation --- Get 50 ethnic, hispanic, black, asian, Jewish,
Christian, Muslim, disabled, senior groups to claim you need new financial incentives and more deregulation.

Killeregulation --- Death to VOIP, Munis, anything that moves.

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Bliki from Riffs

Bliki is a combination of two popular internet interfaces: blogs and wikis.

A blog is your online journal. A wiki is an application that allows users to modify any portion of a document. A Bliki is a combination of these two things—the community, including you, decides on the content for any given item, whose reviews are the best, what things or topics are the most important to riff about, and how those riffs should be organized and annotated.

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At this Fireside Meeting, Jerry will blend a performance piece that involves the audience and a piece of concept-mapping software called TheBrain with a thesis he's developing that will either have you grinning enthusiastically or throwing spoiled vegetables. It's an experiment, and whoever shows up will help shape it.

This is an interesting fact I didn't know Marc Finnern posted on the Future Salon.

At AlwaysOn a week ago I talked to Doc Searls and he told me that the original idea for the Cluetrain Manifesto was born 10 years ago at one of Jerry's retreats. There are many events in the Bay Area, but this one you shouldn't miss.

As a forward looking thinker Jerry has a lot of good things to say about identity and we often chat about the field. I am looking forward to going to the next (my first) "Jerry's retreat." Hopefully he can come to the Identity Event in Berkeley in October details to follow this week.

Opening:

Over the years, I have had an uneasy relationship with you. I've not cared one bit for being your prospect. And, as it seems that being your customer is just an extension of a permanent, unrelenting and ever-more-intrusive marketing campaign, I'm not nuts about being your customer, either.

He quotes David Glen Mick from a paper Searching for Byzantium: A Personal Journey into Spiritual Questions that Marketing Researchers Rarely Ask

Another set of spiritual questions we seldom ask ourselves concerns the effects of marketing and consumption on human character. By character I do not mean human values, but rather our psychological temperament as we go about our daily activities. What kind of person does marketing and consumption encourage or discourage?

Mick's answers include examples of qualities of temperament that are, in his opinion, encouraged by marketing and consumption: impatience, incivility, judgmentalism and distrust.

He continues to articulate the problems with marketing and gets to the heart of the matter by offering a new model.

What I'm recommending is the creation of (what I will call) a "custnomer": a data alias or new "name" for that me that gets profiled by your computer systems.

At a minimum, this will mean that my customer records and data won't have my real name appended to them. There are too many thieves and scammers out there who are seeking to use my good name and the records attached to it. Grab your nearest CIO and Chief Privacy Officer (and maybe the Chief Security Officer, though that person is probably on Zoloft at present) by their lapels and strongly encourage them to begin in-depth research into the promising work on Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRI) and XRI Data Interchange (XDI).

The Daddy of XRI, Drummond Reed, is someone I consider a friend ...is, without question, the darned nicest and most patient technology visionary that you will ever come across. There isn't an ounce of ego in his dealings with us woefully common folk.

Warning: XRI/XDI is not some obscure, trivial "tech thing" that will only be meaningful to those who mumble to themselves and spend half their lifetimes slaughtering innocents and evil-doers... virtually, that is. XRI/XDI has encoded within it is a simple, powerful idea that will come true over time and will change your business: "My private data is mine."

He goes on to highlight data anonymity and the work of Latanya Sweeney, Assistant Professor, Institute for Software Research International at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Here's how Sweeney describes what she does:

Perhaps the biggest clash between technology and society involves privacy. The task of maintaining privacy and confidentiality in a globally networked, technically empowered society is quite difficult, tricky and fun.

Data privacy (or more precisely, data anonymity) is emerging as a new study within computer science that is the study of computational solutions for releasing information about entities (such as people, companies, governments) such that certain properties (such as identity) are controlled while the data remain practically useful. While these problems have been studied, in part, by statisticians and earlier computer scientists, their solutions have been rendered insufficient in today's technically empowered society. So, in data anonymity, we develop new approaches and tools for today's computational environment.

My colleagues and I (in the Laboratory for International Data Privacy, for which, I am the director) take a two-prong approach to data anonymity. On the one hand, we work as data detectives and on the other hand, we also work as data protectors."

The best part is he finished up with the new business model.

I'm thinking that there's probably some trustworthy business entity—although, I'm hard-pressed to figure out which it might be—that could serve as my proxy. (Now, banks and/or credit card companies, before you leap to any conclusions, take a long look at your information assurance practices and see the part of this article about the Trusted Computing Group.)

I would willingly provide just enough information, credentials and data that authenticate who I am and which, say, establish my credit-worthiness to a "trusted relationship proxy": some government-certified, insured, audited, secure entity that would establish and manage the data version of "me" and would become the "gateway" to all (or many) of my most important business relationships. Think of this proxy as an agent who serves as a buffer between me and you.

Seems like their current implementations are focused on different faith communities.

Curious about the people around you? Pantopic takes the openness, and, well, 'browseability' of an online community into the real world. Once you install pantopic, your phone becomes like a webpage that only people in your immediate area can read.

The fun part comes when you link up with pantopic groups in your area. Once you do, you'll be able to get information about who your friends are hanging out with, and where. It's going to be a few years before a lot of people have this technology. Pantopic tries to solve the saturation problem by focusing on seeing activity in your groups.

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