Identity and Crowdsourcing Interview on Assignment Zero

I was interviewed for the new Wired effort to crowd source articles called Assignment Zero. Appropriately enough the first article is about Crowd Sourcing. This whole new modle of writing is one of the reasons that Bruce Sterling stopped writing for the magazine.
In my Interview “Your Online Identity Defines Your Role in the Crowd: Identity Woman builds networks of trust, face-to-face and through Internet Identity”
This was a fun interview – at first I thought it would just be about unconferences but as we got to talking it became clear that Identity had a role to play in improving the potential of crowd sourcing. I am not a big believer in the power of ‘random groups of people’ solving complex problems. I think persistence of identity over time and context that allows the development of a transaction history or record could really be interesting because it is an architecture that can support the emergence of trust.