From June 19 through 21, 2006, Harvard University’s Berkman Center is going to host the Identity Mashup Conference, which has this to say: The goal of the conference is to explore the role of identity systems (tools that let users and merchants know whom to trust on the web) in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil…

Just before I met Chuck Mortimore for the first time (and some time after he had left SXIP), I was told by somebody I’m not supposed to identify that he’s one of the smarter guys around (to make this an understatement). If that conjecture needed any proof, here it is: late last night, he released…

According to InformationWeek’s print edition: 48% of American adults believe the benefits to patients and society of a digital patient-record system outweigh risks to privacy. However, nearly the same percentage — 47% — say privacy risks outweigh expected benefits. These numbers come from a phone survey by Harris Interactive, and were quoted in testimony before…

Axelrod’s famous book "The Evolution of Cooperation" has been one of my all-time favorites for a long time. SmartMobs now reports via Wired that a new successful strategy has been found for the iterated prisoners’ dilemma that is different from Tit-for-Tat. This strategy basically steps out of the original system by having prior knowledge of…

There is now even a website specifically dedicated to Bluejacking.