Some time ago, I decided not to regularly empty my spam folder any more. And today, I’m proud (?) to announce that it now contains 100,063 spam messages. 100,063 pieces of spam! All to me! What is the world coming to. Two and a half years ago I wrote a piece called "Death of e-mail?",…

Originally, I was supposed to talk about LID at SD Forum today, but instead we moved it to October 27, because Ray Kurzweil is in town to speak about how we will all become immortal through technology. So I’m sitting at SAP Labs in Palo Alto instead, listening, being amazed, dazzled, inspired and I don’t…

Dave Kearns recently introduced the work of Danah Boyd to the Identity Gang. I just read through her MIT master’s thesis which has an interesting, and probably sociologically quite valid view on what might constitute "identity" both off-line and on-line. It rings a lot more true to me than much discussion that’s currently going on…

There is client-server software, and there is peer-to-peer software. Are these two architectures all we ever need for distributed software? I’d like to suggest that some of the world’s most successful distributed software architectures are neither client-server nor peer-to-peer when you look at them closely. They follow an architectural pattern that I’d like to call…

I’m sitting in the audience on this day 2 of PC Forum. Lots of people are blogging it, so I’m only blogging what I find remarkable. Yesterday, we heard from Andrew Stern, the president of the the Service Employees International Union, who is most certainly an unusual speaker for a capitalist conference such as PC…