Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Homeward bound

Driving back home today. I'll be turning the public note-taking from the last two days, plus live recordings and pix (courtesy of friends with cameras), into a coherent Linux Journal piece after I get back. Stay tuned.

Don't panic

Seems the time is about ripe for an Earthquake here in California. Thought I'd share that while it was busy occurring to me.

Speaking of decentralization

Slashdot: Web of Trust Audio News Distribution. It's about a "cool web of trust voice message routing system with a decaying credibility metric" from Wearlab that supports XMMS (Jabber) and WinAmp.

Almost speaking of which, Eric Norlin has been in town for a Web services thing. Dig his report (on that last link). A sample:

...here's what most conference organizers do not realize — at a conference, the webloggers ARE the "press."

He has its number

Illiad makes the case for identity services. I've made it too, here and here. Thanks to Charles Roth for the pointer.