Just saw that Andre Durand blogged this a couple of weeks ago: Perhaps one of the most powerful concepts of OpenID is the fact that it gives the user a visible ‘handle’ (identifier) that is used and handed out at relying party websites. It could, quite possibly, end up becoming one of the most important…

Gordon Cook, publisher of the Cook Report on Internet Protocol Technology, Economics and Policy, published a quasi-interview with me on his blog. He calls it a "Mini Tutorial" on identity. It originated in a set of e-mail exchanges on his Architecture and Economy mailing list, which brings together a lot of movers and shakers of…

In her version here, it has moved into a Venn diagram.

Drummond writes about recent progress at the Identity Commons, and how it is… …perhaps the most intentionally-designed un-organization in history. Would you like to be involved? ;-) More seriously, he has a very valid point. The traditional model for organizations interested in some area of the market or some technology has been to build some…

Doc Searls finally wrote down what I and others have implored him to write down for some time: his story about meeting that Nigerian Pastor on a plane, which led to "Markets are conversations" in the Cluetrain manifesto and a host of profound insights. Listen to this dialogue: “Pretend this is a garment”, Sayo said,…