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This conversation is being blogged – ASIST panel

Paul Jones has posted the writeup for tomorrow’s panel: What: THIS CONVERSATION IS BEING BLOGGED: Our lives, online, all the time, in the trend towards lifelogging When: 12:30 to 1:30pm March 29th, 2007 Where: Pleasants Family Room in Wilson Library at UNC-CH Who: A Panel Discussion Led by Dr. Deborah Barreau, with panelists Paul Jones, […]

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eekim, STODID podcast, and SXSW

A few days ago I was excited to find that Eugene Eric Kim had posted about a conversation we’d had (when I apparently ambushed him) at the last Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View in December. I love it when people who write well make me sound smart. What was he doing that I found […]

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BibDesk, BibTeX and Subversion – An academic’s necessity

When I first started this PhD program, I had a desire to keep all my references and papers in my computer. Better to search them. Better to keep them in one place. No dog-eared corners and ripped notebook paper in 3-ring binders. I wanted to minimize the stacks of paper that I knew would accumulate […]

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Ze Frank talks about his lizard brain

In yesterday’s episode of The Show with Ze Frank, Ze talks about fear and emotion and the “reptilian part of your brain“: It’s left over from a time when things were a little more straightforward. Bigger than me? Check. Fangs? Check. Run like hell. While a bit more straightforward perhaps than manipulation via mediated communication, […]

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New Verified Page at claimID

We rolled out Verified Pages today. OpenID is in the air, and providing services across domains will become very important very soon. I think we’re still about six months out from the Big Bang. August. I’m calling it. Verification underlies Identity. Identity underlies claims about a person. Aggregated claims underlie the reputations we ascribe to […]

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ClaimID, the easy to use OpenID identity provider

So Fred and I have been scheming. The recent push behind OpenID and its impending uptake by a great many people has led us to the decision to rebrand claimID just a bit. We retooled the documentation, made it more apparent to the new user the benefits of having and using an OpenID and generally […]

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It’s hard to watch our published surface area

I’ve recently started subscribing to Jon Udell’s blog. One of his recent posts relates to our own information publishing as a cell – in the sense that it has a membrane where we detect interactions with the outside world. A compelling visual no doubt – I think it’s a great way to describe to those […]

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Wikia Search to have open algorithms

I am a big fan of open software. Meaning, Open Source and the thought and philosophy behind it. And I also think that in the long run, things based on open standards with open discussion and open algorithms are the infrastructure that allows us to move forward. Private, proprietary companies might advance the state of […]

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28% of Online Americans have used tagging

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just put out a new report on the state of tagging in America. It also features a fairly prominent interview with David Weinberger. The takeaway numbers show that 28% of online Americans have used tagging before and that 7% are active taggers (tagged something ‘yesterday’). The survey […]

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The RIAA and MPAA are fronts for the Green Party

It recently occurred to me that I may have stumbled onto a very uncomfortable truth. Could it be that the RIAA/MPAA are fronts for the Green Party here in the US? As the number of pirates has decreased, the Earth has seen a steady increase in average global temperature (global warming). This was first dutifully […]

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