Wednesday, October 9, 2002

Nice asses

Just found this on Google. No kidding.

Paneling

The panel went well, considering. (People tell me it did, anyway.) Denise blogged it and already Bryan, a panelist, is (along with the rest of us) dealing with the afterbloggage.

AKMA's been blogging hard too. We're both sitting in a corner right now, quietly tapping away...

Loose talk

Sitting having lunch with Peter Biddle of Microsoft. He's saying quotable stuff:

A law mandating technology would be bad, bad, bad.

A law mandating Microsoft technology would be bad, bad, bad.

I'm looking forward to more conversations about Palladium, which I still, frankly, don't know much about.

Ramping up to the panel

Everybody here at DIDW seems to represent the supply side of the Identity Issue. Which is exactly the problem. It's top-down stuff. We need somebody speaking for the customer here. Looks like I'll be the first.

Here are a few examples of where I'll be coming from:

Identity from the Inside Out A peek around the Personal Identity Management Curve Is Anonymity a Right?

Quote of the day

Jerry Michalski, "one of the smartest analysts of the digital age and now a consultant on customer relationships," in Tuning Out the Customer, by David Kirkpatrick in Fortune:

Because media companies see intellectual property as their only asset, they're willing to risk totally alienating their entire customer base in order to protect that asset.

The latest on Lessig

Nice report here. Also at Lawmeme. Watch Donna Wentworth at Copyfight too (see here). Denise, an actual lawyer, just pointed me to both.

Live from DIDW, first session...

Denise reminds me that I'll be moderating the Open Source and Identity panel at 1:30 today. Want some input on that? Put suggestions in the discussion section. (By the way, Denise is doing a much better job blogging this than I am.) [Later...] Here's Marc's suggestion: Faces & Avatars.

Phil Becker: Privacy is about enforcing a netgative - what you agree not to do wth data gathered for a specific purpose. Privacy enforced by policy will not be trusted as much a privacy which is created structurally or architecturally.... Authentication is not an end, but a means to indentity based transactions...

Guy from GM... embrace stretch teargets... move with a sense of urgency.. enhance customer focus... I was hoping he'd be interesting, but alas...

Help!

My Sony PC-110 camcorder, which I use primarily as a digital camera, won't shoot pictures because it tells me, in large blinking yellow type, that I have a FORMAT ERROR.

Removing and reinserting the memory stick doesn't do anything. Ideas? Thanks.

[Later...] didw1.jpg: Mitch Ratcliffe came through by recommending that I reformat the MemoryStick in the computer's PCMCIA slot. I don't have a memory stick adapter for that, but I do have a firewire connection. So I hooked up the camera by firewire, turned itn into a hard drive, erased the directory for still pictures, and... it worked. Amazing. My first test shot is this one on the right, of myself and Dr. Weinberger, blogging away.

Mitch has a new Radio blog, by the way. Check it out.

Losing the PR war

Alan Graham: Why the RIAA has won. He begins:

On any given day, stashed deep within the Technology section of any major newspaper, you’ll find a boring little article opposing the efforts of the RIAA and similar organizations. Within all the techno-babble of the piece, you’ll find the author defending the consumer’s fair use rights. However, on the front page of the same newspaper, you’ll find an unabashed and touching piece supporting the RIAA, claiming that all consumers are thieves, not to be trusted, ravaging the once vibrant music industry.

ID World Nudes

I'm here at Digital ID World in Denver. Things haven't even started and already there's a lot going on. Had a long talk a the bar last night with Phil Wolff, who seems to be the living opposite of Catbert the Evil HR Director. Among other things he introduced me to the koncept of klogs — knowledge weblogs.

Eric Norlin is here and seems to be running things. Interesting conversations last night with Eric, with Bryan Field-Elliot and a bunch of other folks.

And just before I turned in, who should walk up but RageBoy himself, who I hadn't seen in the flesh for two years or something. Can't wait to get some hang time with him. Dr. Weinberger too, who will also be here, blogging the show at DigitalMass.

Now I'm sitting at breakfast with Frank Paynter and Denise Howell. We were talking Eldred a few minutes ago, agreeing that Larry's chances are on the long side. He's arguing Eldred before the Supremes today. Look for the transcript in about ten days. Meanwhile it says here to look here for updates from the hearing itself.