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 [...]

Today is a big day for the web. The Open Web Foundation is being announced at OSCON. A small dedicated group of developers, web innovators and community leaders have come together to create this place were spec’s can be incubated in an open process and have IPR dealt with upfront rather then an afterthought [...]

Kermit brought this annoucment to my attention via Twitter. “A draft TC charter has been submitted to establish the OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) Technical Committee. In accordance with the OASIS TC Process Policy section 2.2 the proposed charter is hereby submitted for comment. The comment period shall remain open until 11:45 pm ET on 7 [...]

At long last the Information Card Foundation launched on June 24th after spending about a year and a half in the works. The first year was all about discovering new, clever ways to not start the foundation. Probably the biggest mistake was to start by trying to get corporate sponsors. The problem is that when [...]

This is the Information Card Foundation website. Charles Andres the ED of the foundation has been working hard getting it ready. This announcement is really big news on several levels. There are major internet players on board committed to cooperating together on this technology - as the founding corporate board members Novell, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Equifax. [...]

This week I am diving back into Identity at Burton Group Catalyst Conference - I am writing you from the Federation workshop offered by Jerry and Doug. It has been just over a month since the Internet Identity Workshop. I am excited to be able to spend the week with all the fun smart [...]

This year I will again be facilitating the Online Community Unconference on June 18th put on by Forum One Communication. I will be talking about the latest developments in identity to the range of community managers and platform providers there. It is going to be great conference - I blogged more about it [...]