Blogs are interesting things. They’ve given an inexpensive publishing voice to the masses and they’ve allowed us to watch individuals grow and learn over time. We’re able to see, through language, who someone is without ever meeting them in the ‘real world’. Not unlike books and magazines and every other publishing medium, without the heavy […]
Tagged blogs, identitySimon Spero announced yesterday on the SILS student listserv a preliminary release of some of his dataset of Library of Congress authority records. His email is copied below and sets the stage for a great deal of new work. Tagging – anyone? The happy meeting of folksonomy and authority records? Our first look into how […]
Tagged authority records, loc, PowerOfMany, ses, sils, simon, spero, uncdanah boyd seems to be stirring up discussion again… Teens are not dreaming of portability (like so many adults i meet). They are happy to make new accounts on new sites; they enjoy building out profiles. (Part of this could be that they have a lot more time on their hands.) The idea of taking […]
Tagged consolidation, identityAn article over at Ars Technica pointed me to John McCain’s Dec 6 bill requiring sex offenders to register their online identifiers at the federal level: A copy of the bill’s text obtained by News.com shows that McCain wants to require every “Internet social networking site, chat room, message board, or any other similar service […]
Tagged cheap pseudonyms, identity, sex offendersPersonal Risk Assessment and Management was another thread of the Reputation discussion last week at the IIW2006 that also appeared at the UNC Social Software Symposium. A sense that every decision we make balances on a complex dance of calculations in a complex personal formula: risk associations with the actions we’re about to take, benefit […]
Tagged iiw2006, lizardbrain, risk management, statisticsFakeYourSpace.com is now selling ‘hot friends’ at $.99/mo. for MySpace, FaceBook, and Friendster. I’m noticing that these things are moving to the next level. We are seeing the next stage of social manipulation. These are attempts to grab attention where the mechanisms for detecting such grabs are still under-developed. An arms race. Only this time […]
Tagged facebook, fake friends, myspace, reputation managementI’m here at the Internet Identity Workshop and have been having a number of great conversations. The quality of the discussions is high and the number of demos is remarkable. Only seven months ago when I was in Mountain View for the earlier IIW2006, there were a couple demos of near-working implementations and a lot […]
Tagged claimID, iiw, iiw2006b, MicroID, OpenIDSo, while watching server logs and signups like it’s going out of style, I realized that this crazy idea might actually be catching on… Thanks, Cristian Lupsa, Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor! Do you need a Web publicist? Wednesday, Nov 29, 2006 – Christian Science Monitor Thursday, Nov 30, 2006 – USAToday
Tagged claimID, csmonitor, usatodayDavid Weinberger relates a story from his recent New Hampshire visit to speak at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference: One teacher said that a parent printed out his daughter’s MySpace page and told her he was going to post it at the mall. When the daughter objected, mortified, the parent explained that MySpace is as […]
Tagged identity, mall, myspaceSo this is fun. Today, I realized I could probably get Cloudalicio.us back online and functional (it’s been offline since March due to a lack of data to parse and graph). It turns out, it was only a few lines of code to tweak and upload. And it works – Meta Cloudy — The full […]
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