Upon2020 (archive)
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Esther Dyson’s Thoughtful Review of the Health 2.0 Conference
Over here at the Huffington Post. It is very worthwhile reading, whether or not you are into Health 2.0; after all, you are a consumer (victim?) of the existing system, spending close to 20% of GDP (i.e. a fifth of your money!) on it.
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Who Are All These Identity Working Groups and What Are They Doing?
Updated. The array of initiatives and working groups and acronyms in identity is large, seemingly growing all the time and very definitely a bewildering jungle to the newcomer. This problem just came up again today in the Identity Open Space (see, one of those bewildering places!) after Digital Identity World (another), and I figured somebody…
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Saluting Our Friends in Burma
I’m not the kind of guy to tend to salute anybody or anything; however, in this case, that sounds downright stupid. There are some incredibly brave people fighting for a cause larger than themselves in Burma right now, and I’m at loss what to say. Except: my thoughts are with you; you are doing the…
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The New Element: Governmentium
I got this via Hendrik Rood, who says it has been circulating around the net for some time, but this too good to pass up: Recent hurricane and gasoline issues have provided proof of the existence of a new chemical element. Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science.…
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News: France Telecom offers OpenIDs to all of their subscribers
Today France Telecom has announced at Digital Identity World today that all Orange broadband subscribers now can use FT-hosted OpenIDs. This makes FT the first major telco to support OpenID. I’ve known about this project for a while; I had the first discussions about this with them more than two years ago. It’s great that…