Friday, June 22, 2007
Loose links
Elliot Noss: "spam and phishing are a tax on stupidity"
"We have to make things available so ordinary people can solve problems for themselves." Consumers are gullets with eyeballs and wallets." "The language of marketing is the language of the military campaign." "The sound you hear is monopoly rents being sucked out the window." - Jerry Michalski
Dealing with Identity
Dave: What is an identity system? He concludes,
Doc and I reached a very interesting place, but I don't want to, at this time, talk about exactly what that was. Not sure I could do the idea justice. Might be better to put up an example app.
Also I should mention that Elliot Noss of Tucows was at the dinner too. Identity services and domain services are related, don't you think?
I agree. I can visualize it better than I can talk about it.
Stay tuned.
Just in case you forgot
Here's how companies were named during Web 1.0.
Let's call it Democracy 0.2
Today, the "blogosphere" is not a concerned cadre of amateur writers and analysts, particularly when it comes to politics. It is a network of political operatives, analysts and organizers who work together - on both sides of the party divide - to spread their message. Some are paid by the campaigns, some are not. Some really are volunteers but the big sites - the ones that charge almost $10,000 a week for their ads - are political businesses. And it's time to stop pretending otherwise.