I am working with Joi Podgorny and Denise Tayloe on this day following the Internet Identity Workshop Nov 10-12 in Mountain View, CA. You can register here on Event Brite. We are bringing together a range of practitioners and experts to work collaboratively for a day together. Our goal is to leave the day [...]

The article that Martin Richards was working about OpenID at the last IIW was finally published in Infomation Week One Web, One WebID. It summarized the confusion in the market well. My dad - who knows nothing about the space summarized the article well (the capital letters are his) From the article it looks like [...]

Identity Commons is an event supporter of the OASIS Open Standards Forum:Security Challenges for the Information Society next week Oct 1-3 in the UK. From their website: Information and communication technologies (ICT) are a major enabler of the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, and manipulation of information and have a major impact on our quality of [...]

So, This summer there was some what of an controversy about the sponsorship of Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner by Zivity (a porn + social networking site where the men pay and get points to divvy up to women who’s “pin-up” photos are posted - and they can also “friend them”). I noticed [...]

So I had two book shipments arrive today - i thought I would share them in case any of you out there also are reading or hope to read these books soon. Let me know. From AMAZON today came Identity and Control: How Social Formations Emerge, Second Edition by Harrison C. White. This one was recommended by [...]

You know your conference is to cheap when other conferences offer you $200 discounts to register EARLY and yours only costs $200. In case you missed it the Internet Identity Workshop has an announcement up and registration is open. Phil and I implore you to PLEASE register early so we know how many of you [...]

I just got back from 10+ days away on Cortes Island at Hollyhock. I am feeling refreshed and renewed. I am spending about 4 days in Vancouver and then heading to Seattle. While here i am meeting people that I knew when I used to live here. I had dinner with [...]

Since I saw wordle I have wanted to make one of these for the Augmented Social Network White paper. It is interesting to see the words that stand out Online Identity, Web communities, community, Information, social data. I decided to run the OECD paper At a Crossroads: “personhood” and digital identity in the information society through [...]

This post was invited by the folks at One Web Day to be the ambassador for the day and talk about why it matters to me. The post will also appear on their website so it has more details then if it were just for this blog. Since I first heard about one web [...]

I am heading off to Cortes Island until August 6th and then Vancouver for 3-4 days and then to Seattle around August 10th until the 13th ish. On Cortes I will be at Hollyhock - if you check out their website you will see my smiling face at their poster child in their rolling banner [...]