Water, Land and UnConference on Mount Shasta in September. At the Ecorestoration Camp on the North West side of Mount Shasta at Hotlum we are hosting a three day How Open Protocols Are a Key Part of Regenerative Technology TLDR Infographic: What does it actually take for digital technology to be regenerative? The question matters because most of the What If the Same Infrastructure That Stops AI Scams and Slop Also Builds the a Co-Created Community Future? By Kaliya Young and Kevin Triplet co-leads of Project Weave The internet is made of protocols. TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP — Agentic Internet Workshop #3 is Nov 6th. IETF 126 activity makes the Case for Why It Matters I'm writing this from IETF 126 in Vienna, where there is a lot of Agentic AI work percolating this week. Enshittification Arises from Enclosure: Open Protocols refuse both I am posting this on the first full day of Decentralized Web Camp on July 9th, 2026. TLDR: Infographic! Doctorow Free Our Groups: From Platforms to Protocols Originally this work was presented at Social Web Foo Camp 2009, and published on my site in 2009. Updated 2026. Protocols as the Grammar of Life : An Orientation I always looked at the world around me and wondered how it worked. My father was a mechanical engineer, and Who Is Tending the Digital Substrate for Bioregional Movements? A Bioregional Chief Technology Officer? or Guilds of Protocol Scouts, Mycelial Stewards, and Sentinels? By Kaliya Young and David Hodgson My Presentation at Who is Real Online? I was invited to share at the Who is Real Online? Personhood, Privacy, and Trust Infrastructure in the Age of She’s Geeky returns with the AI Edition – May 15th, 2026 in SF I started She's Geeky in 2007 (see our old site). Over the next decade we held 17 unconferences — open, Interview in the Domain Standard I was interviewed by the Domain Standard for their 2nd issue. The interview fills 5 full pages beginning on page So you want an Unconference? You can Hire me! I have been reflecting on Ikigai a Japanese concept blending passion, talent, purpose, and fulfillment. For me, the magical intersection Joining the Sideways Verifiable Communities project I’m excited to share that I have joined the Verifiable Community project led by Grace Rachmany. This is a full No Phone Home: What it means and why it is important I am a signatory to the No Phone Home Statement being released today, June 2, 2025. This statement concerns a Key themes going into IIW XL (40) We are heading into the 40th Internet Identity Workshop, an event that I cofounded with Doc Searls and Phil Windley Real Names & Glassdoor & Fishbowl There is a Social Contract with sites and their name policies. Some how companies still don't really understand this (See Event Reflection: Children’s Digital Privacy Summit 2024 Last week, I flew to LA To attend the Children’s Digital Privacy Summit hosted by Denise Tayloe and her team Participation in the IIW Episode on the Rubric Podcast I participated in the Internet Identity Workshop Episode of the Rubric Podcast, a casual chat on DIDs and DID methods. My Understanding of the JSON vs.JSON-LD JSON, a Simple and Easy Start for Verifiable Credential Issuance JSON is really really simple. It is just name value Misinformation Stops Here: W3C VC 2.0 Supports JSON Misinformation sometimes gets a foothold and spreads across the digital identity oriented forums. A most recent piece that is percolating Zurich RxC Meetup: Identity in the Age of Generative AI As an enthusiastic member of the RadicalxChange community, I have actively participated in numerous RxC forums including working with the Public Slide Decks from the SVIP Program There are quite a few publicly available slide decks that Anil John has circulated from his program working on developing My 4 Events Next Week June 5-9 Next week is a busy one. I'm heading to Florence Italy for a workshop on Blockchain Constitutionalism. I will be Wallets Can’t be the Adapters Between Credential Formats This post is a bit of a throwback to the cultural norm we had in this community at the beginning MEF: London/virtual on May 25th – The Dawn of Personal and Organizational Identity Last year Michael Becker invited me to London to speak at this event. It was really fun if under-attended. This 1 2 3 … 49 Next »
