Saturday, April 26, 2003

Ain't nothin' more social than a buncha pix

Here's some social software for ya: iView MediaPro. It even has a weblog.

Anyway, that's what I used to produce a gallery of pix from ETCon 2003. Coming off my new colo'd Linux server, by the way.

It was all about ambiguity, sort of

Esther reminds me of why I hated leaving David Weinberger's talk right in its middle (to catch a plane).

Some dialoge from their breakfast:

DW: Explicitness is an act of violence. You think it’s archeological: You take something and dust it off, but in fact explicitness reduces things; it destroys. ….That’s why groups stay away from constitution writing.

ED: But they don’t stay away from constitution-writing. It’s more like moths to a flame. They can’t stop it. But they can’t handle the explicitness. It’s like pre-nuptial agreements.

DW: And the same with digital ID, Web personas. We’re drawn to them, but they’re destructive.

DW: But I’m ending with hope. That there’s now hope for social software to move from its past — harsh and glaring and topdown — to a new, emergent, bottom-up form that preserves the ambiguity. There’s an art to doing explicitness well, so that it’s not destructive.

This is exactly what I hope to see from a mydentity-based infrastructure.

Here's more from Eric Norlin.

Fall conference planning

Dave says BloggerCon will be on October 4 at Harvard. I just checked on other commitments and see no conflicts. The two biggies in that rough time frame...

Linux Lunacy Geek Cruise, September 13-20, heading to Alaska out of Seattle.

DigitalID World, October 15-17 in Denver.

Peace on

Dean: Incorrigible Peacenik. Opposition to the war (and to the regime currently occupying the Oval Office, et al) and support for the troops are not mutually exclusive.

Bonus Link: Gary Turner's Notebooks of Mass Destruction.

Weaving the World Live Web

Allen reports at length on ETCon. Also about GlobeAlive's need for some kind of rating system solution.

Kaolin expands on the problem. I think the solution, whatever it is, might be exactly the Mydentity we've been looking for.

Relationshipping

Britt Blaser: The Flip Side. One sample:

Openness trumps legality, PR, accounting, advertising, good intentions, pricing, litigation and every other mechanism that convinces us it's a good idea to buy over-hyped commodities and sell an hour of our time for $20 so the company can resell it for $60. A single email may be enough openness to bring bankers down who once would have moved quietly on to another firm to do it all over again. When reputation data is too broadly distributed to be hidden and too obvious to be spun, we'll have recaptured the User Interface enjoyed by generations of traders in the stalls of Chaldea, relating to generations of customers, teaching the world how to serve the customer and the bottom line.

It's chapter of a book that needs to be written. Dig it.

Bonus link: Eric Norlin notes more developments in the DigID space, which is, ultimately, related.

Pray for piece

Evangelingerie for the adult Christian. Follow the links to Landover Baptist ("Where the worthwhile worship") and other irreverencies.