Sean Ammirati is a product manager at mSpoke who attended IIW for the first time last May. He also writes for Read/Write Web about once a week and does podcasts on Read/Write Talk. We recorded a podcast last week there is both a transcript and a recording. Dale Olds joined me at the end of the podcast.
Event
Internet Identity Workshop
With She’s Geeky over my attention is now turning to the two conferences that I am facilitating in November Foresight Vision Weekend and the New York Association of Independent Schools Technology Manager Conference.
In December I am producing the Internet Identity Workshop.
We had a call last week about design of IIW that went well. We will do another call early next week and have a relatively complete outline by November 3.
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She's Geeky is Going Great
So we are in the thick of She’s Geeky a women’s tech (un)conference. Today was ‘pre-programmed’ with a range of great sessions. Tomorrow is going to be the Open Space day. We have a range of amazing good sessions that are proposed and more will emerge tomorrow.
We have many sponsors to thank for making this day a reality.
We also had a great travel/scholarship sponsorship – from MyStrands that paid for Beth Kanter, Liza Sabater, and Elizabeth Perry to be here.
THANK YOU!!!!
Foundation Sponsors:
Google
Microsoft
MyStrands
Yahoo!
Supporting Sponsors:
Live World
Plaxo
meebo
Mozilla
Nonprofit Organizations:
NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network
MobileActive.org
Compumentor / TechSoup
Planetwork
Startups and Consultancies:
Atlassian
Purple Tornado
Citizen Agency
Vidoop
Blue Oxen Associates
Quiddities
box.net
Covered Communications
Ustream
WooMeOver
Veodia
Vogele and Associates
Foldier
Media Sponsors:
DevChix
LinuxChix
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
DigitalWoman
WebGrrls
Society of Women Engineers
SXSW
Skirt
Brussels (feedback way late)
Apparently some of you had a terrible dinner experience in Brussels in April at the Identity Open Space. Well so did I.
It was one of the low points of identity community organizing involving logistics in a foreign city. I had an offer from a local in the (identity) community to help out with anything that I needed help with for the Identity Open Space. I asked him to help find a venue for our dinner. I trusted him to do this and it was not really a good choice. It was far away (although walking distance), the room was crowded, it was hot, we had a set menu, the food was not good and it was expensive. So I am sorry to all of you who endured it.
Lessons learned:
1) Don’t fully trust the local (get secondary confirmation from an additional person)
2) Tap more knowledgeable local sources – like hotel concierge to find venues for dinner.
3) Ask the co-coordinating organization for help too (that would have been Liberty Alliance in this case).
Sorry again to all of you who had a bad dinner experience. It was not my intention. I really wanted to be able to eat and talk together and discuss identity as a community. I know that my table had a good conversation so I hope that others did too.
Scenario Planning Sunday Afternoon for Monday Panel
So for all of you coming to the scenario planning ‘exercise’ on Sunday for the DIDW panel on the Future of Internet Scale Identity we will be meeting in the Lobby of Tower 1 of the SF Hilton at 2pm.
With the numbers we have currently signed up I think this will do just fine as a meeting spot. If we move from this location go there and look on the middle desk in that lobby and we will leave a note about where we are. You can also text me at 415 425 1136 if that doesn’t work.
I have my final planning meeting with John Kelly tomorrow. I am hoping he can join me in facilitating the exercise either way we are good to go. We have about two dozen “event’s” that could happen in the future. Those who come will get to create more events. From there we will look at how the relate, and cluster. There is a bit more to it and then we will present what we discern on Monday. It should be a lot of fun.
Feel free to come even if you have not signed up or pinged me via e-mail.
She's Geeky: An Women's Tech (un)conference
I am producing another unconference this fall. It is for women working in technology called She’s Geeky. It is October 22-23 in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum.
I would encourage you all to let women you know in tech know about the event either via e-mail or blogging.
I am working with a great organizing team including Mary Hodder from Dabble, Susan Mernit from Yahoo!, Julia French from Covered Communications, Deb Roby a BlogHer Blogger, Melanie Swan, Heather Vesent from the Purple Tornado and Laurie Rae.
We have three simple goals with the event.
- Exchange skills and learning from women from diverse fields of technology.
- Discuss topics about women and technology.
- Connect the diverse range of women in technology, computing, entrepreneurship, funding, hardware, open source, nonprofit and any other technical geeky fields.
What is the value of coming? It should be a great networking opportunity to meet other interesting women who you or your company might do business with. In this format you will get to learn more then you would just having interesting meetings in a hallway like you do at typical conferences that cost a lot more.
We have aimed to make it affordable and accessible for women costing $125 (until Sept 30). We have some great sponsors so far to help make up the difference Google, The Nonprofit Technology Network, Atlassian, Purple Tornado, Citizen Agency and are actively looking for other sponsors who would like to contribute to the event. Please contact me if you are interested.
It is an event where women can get exposed to new and different skills in industry niches they don’t normally work in. The unconference format is a perfect format to build community and relationships across niches. – I talked to a developer yesterday who was one of 12 women developers out of 600 people attending Ruby Conf. It can be lonely in one little niche – reaching out to women who share technical passion but are not in your niche is a needed thing.
I love the Identity Community and have lots of friends here. There are also not that many women in our little field. I have been really lucky to hang out in a few tech niches (Web 2.0, Open Source, NonProfit Tech) I noticed that there was often very little overlap between the people in these communities so part of the goal is to mix between niches and hopefully create some new friendship and business opportunities.
I personally have had very few ‘issues’ in being a women working in the industry – in fact it has been great. I also have been hanging out on several women in technology mailing lists and I feel really lucky to be in a community with a healthy culture that is welcoming and encouraging. This is not always the case.
With this event we have an opportunity with an all women’s space to dive deeper into the issues arising for women working in this field. The timing is opportune on the heals of the O’Reilly Women in Technology series that is running this month. There is a lot of intense commenting following those articles regarding the issues raised. In open space we do the same thing but face-to-face. My article was posted today: Process Geekiness: The Role of Face-to-Face Collaboration in Thriving Tech Communities
There is another fact about women in technology that inspired me to pull this event together. Many women who work in technology do so ‘accidently’ and therefore don’t have formal training in the sector – creating opportunities for next steps to deepen knowledge and skills on a career path is especially important. So the skill sharing is an opportunity for us accidental tech workers to learn something new and broaden horizons for next steps on a career path is another goal for She’s Geeky.
You can’t just show up and present anywhere – you can at She’s Geeky. At regular conferences and the other women in tech programs have formal themes, committees and selection processes. This is a great opportunity to show up and try something out.
If you are a women working in tech please join us if you can.
Data Sharing Summit – Wiki Gardening Part 1
I spent a good portion of this afternoon at a (solo) wiki gardening party on the Data Sharing Summit Wiki.
There is a page called Outcomes in the top Nav Bar that documents pages on the Data Sharing wiki along with the many blog posts that cover outcomes of sessions, links to photos of the summit and next steps.
I am quite pleased with the range of good documentation and commentary and hope that by next week there is even more posted. I will have written up all the Problems and Offerings that people put forward at the beginning of the weekend.
It was a pleasure to work with Marc Canter to bring this group together. Many have commented to me about how incredible the focus and productivity were at the event. I asked folks at the closing what they thought got done and we have an amazing list. At the closing circle 95% of folks thought we should do it again and 95% liked the format. The thing I love about open space is that it allows anyone in the group to put forward their ideas and the group votes with its feet about what to do. I think for innovating and getting stuff done there is no better way.
I would like to thank Innovis for their generous donation of space. Plaxo was super and stepped up to resource me for my time – facilitating that group is not an easy thing to do – it takes a lot of energy. AOL paid for a great dinner on Friday Night and Clear Spring covered the drinks – I think eating together is as much a part of a conference as ‘the conference.’ Leverage and Cerado also contributed money to make the event possible.
I will be doing another Wiki Gardening Party next week for the Data Sharing Summit Wiki Wednesday from 11-3 on the Freenode Channel #datasharing if you want to join in.
In the Desert for a Week: Back after Labo(u)r Day.
I have been fairly quite here for a few weeks. Just toddling along at summer. I have spent the last few weeks getting ready for Burning Man. I made a sculpture about 3’x4′ that looks like this.
I am leaving within hours. It should be great – I will be at 9:00 and Jungle in Sustainabiliaville.
Gnomedex Morning 1: The Highlights
I had a GREAT time at the party last night. There are so many great people here from SF and Seattle + a bunch of folks from all over the country – including Ohio
Part1:
The Opening Keynote was by Robert Steele. I unfortunately had a conference call to plan for ShesGeeky – the women’s (only) tech conference in October – so I had to miss the presentation.
However I had some incling about what he might present since I first met Robert at Nexus for Change – people there largely in the granola crowd listened to him because of his connection to Tom Atlee from the Co-Intelligence Institute and author of the Tao of Democracy.
I spent several hours dialogging with him there. In my conversation with was interesting on the one hand he was talking about ground up citizens deliberation (see NCDD) BUT – these are THE 10 Threats, THE 12 Policies, THE 8 Players. [Here are some of the “jems” from his talks captured in a live blog this morning. Here and here.]
Part 2:
I got to hear most of Daren Barefoot present he covered some interesting topics including:
Gross National Happiness (they have conferences on this – I found a Frontline that covers it.
Build infrastructure if you want to make a difference.
He put forward several great online ‘do good’ projects
* I could Be
* GeekCorps
* Get a First Life
* Nothing But Nets
He highlighted Web of Change as an Awsome conference – He asked if anyone had been. I raised my hand, agreed yes it was AWSOME.
He pointed out NetSquared as a conference.
I put forward the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) which is a great network of technologists working on social good stuff. Bouns: Their conferences are 50% women.
Personal Side Note related to IT and Changing the World:
Just this week I began planning for the next Planetwork Conference – and where to begin but around Themes. The one we are currently playing with is Infrastructure Patterns for Collaboration and Sustainability.
Part3:
Guy Kawasaki closed of the morning asking us what we wanted him to talk about. We chose Evangelism.
The ART of EVANGELISM
1) Make Meaning
2) Make Mantra (2-3 words)
3) Roll the Dicee
* Deep 1.0 is plenty good eg. Fanning (Reef)
* Intelligent [DESIGN MATTERS]
* Complete
* Elegant
* Emotive
4) Niche Thyself (high and to the right. Value that is Unique).
5) Let a Hundred Blossoms Bloom
6) Make it Personal
7) Find the True Influnencers
8) Enable Test Drives
9) Look for agnostics, not atheists [or the religious]
10) Provide a Slippery Slope
11) Don’t let the bozos grind you down
Highlights from BlogHer
Ok. I will give you the IDENTITY highlights first…
I lead a session on OpenID at the unconference on sunday and the two of the four guys who were at the unconference came to the session (none of the women did). They wanted me to explain what it was because they had heard the ‘buzz’ about it and wondered.
I did get to explain OpenID to a feminist activist and photographer Laurie Toby Edison who was active in the 60’s she understood it. This was a good feeling. After years of explaining the idea (at first in theory and now in reality) of Identity on the web – I know I can explain it to just about anyone who has some computer/web literacy (it helped that she had been active blogger for over 2 years). I think this is our major challenge…expanding who is using it. I think there is a huge opportunity to get the women bloggers using OpenID – hopefully there will be some services that cater specifically to that audience.
I found a search engine that lets you link up you on the web – called Lijit. Basically you tell it your LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Flickr, Blog addresses and…it can then search across them…it makes YOU and your content a resource. I said to Tara their evangelist “so it is like ClaimID but with Search” but she didn’t know about ClaimID. I am inviting her to DIDW so hopefully we can all get the scoop on Lijit. I have been thinking about the ‘non-google’ search engine space and what is out there that is better then google.
I ran into Hakia again. They are a semantic search company (this is going to be ‘the year of sematic search I think… (or as we sometimes like to joke there are 3 years in one year ‘internet time’) [reminder to self…blog about visit to the Sematic Technology conference this spring] I have not used their search engine yet – there does seem to be a fair number of ‘non-google’ search choices that look interesting…I hope they get together and collectively let us know more about other ways to access info on the web because I am getting board of google in a way. I am smarter now…it is like google is the typewriter and I want a wordprocesser.
The Experience Project – this is a place where you can go and tell your story…and they will connect you with a community of folks who have similar stories… these may be stories that are really personal and you have not shared with anyone. They keep you anonymous/psdonomoys – I asked if it was like Post Secret Interactive and they said – yeah kinda. I think the freedom that we have to be on the net and the ability to find community around issues and episodes in our past that we feel social shame and embarasment is a very good thing. I really want us to protect the freedom to be on the web without suvelance and tracking because it is a good thing.
Regular Highlights:
I had a good time at BlogHer this year. Last year was challenging…emotional regression to highschool times….the ‘popular’ girls all prancing around in their really fancy outfits…wearing makeup and fancy shoes…hanging in little cliques. The ‘unnofficial theme’ last year turned out to be “Revenge of the Mommy Bloggers” We had Baby bibs in our swag bags along with Condoms (the male kind but designed for “her pleasure.” (It turns out I did get a condom this year but it was the ‘business card’ for a blog called Motherhood uncencored.)
This year the ‘unofficial theme’ turned out to be a much more inoquous and fun one…”Crafters Take Over” and there was peace between “mommies and non-mommies.”
I went mainly because I helped them run the unconference on Sunday after the ‘official’ conference ended. Many who attended thought it was the best day of the conference.
After the unconference I had dinner with Jessee Engle who is launching a really cool service called Design My Room that does for design what open source does for software – they have top designers do rooms…and you can lift the looks and THEN design your own room – making tweeks and changes.
With the election coming up and women particularly ‘single women’ being seen as a powerful voting blog this was no surprise. I met Gina Cooper the ED of Yearly Kos, Dana Singiser Director of Women’s Outreach for the Hilary Campaign and Ramona Oliver Communications Director for Emily’s list. Granded none of these conversations was a very long but I am hoping that I can at least raise the possibility of OpenID adoption amongst campaign sites.
I met some new women Tech Friends that were really fun Gwen who just moved back from Japan and Tara who is the new evangelist for Ligit.
Tibits from the Road
I have had a a full week at OSCON for the beginning and BlogHer for the weekend. I was still in Chicago still at the W hotel as I wrote this yesturday.
So I will start-off with Slashdot Headlines:
Terms of Service for Online services can not be changed without notifying users. YEAH!
Hopefully this will create an insentive for the industry to become more transparent about the terms of service they are using and adopting an easy to understand set of icons.
Parents Encouraged to buy Office 2007 for their kids. Of course Slashdot wonders about free alternatives. A friend in Portland was telling me his girlfriend a teacher in the schools there was prohibited from downloading FireFox onto her Windows computer. She raised this issue and got the prohibition reversed and even BETTER the school district this year is adopting Open Office.
Outcomes from O’Reilly Open Source Convention
Eben Moglen take on Tim O’Reilly
From the Zend Blog:
Eben used this event to re-invigorate the debate about software freedom by attacking Tim O’Reilly, who he claims has wasted his time cozying up with the new powerhouse companies of the Web 2.0 generation and getting rich, while failing to use his influence for the bigger issue of software / knowledge freedom.
Software Freedom Law Center director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O’Reilly founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly. Saying that O’Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building the O’Reilly name, Moglen invited O’Reilly to stop being “frivolous” and to join the conversation about software freedom.
At first I thought it was simply old friends giving each other a hard time but soon it was clear that Eben had an agenda and was using the venue to make his point. I don’t have any problem with a speaker having a point of view and arguing it vigorously, but when it turns personal and vitriolic they’ve clearly cross the line.
I think this was clear to the audience as well. How else could you intrepret statements like:
1 You spend to much time with your billionaire friends
2 You’ve wasted the past 10 years trying to make money while freedoms are under attack
3 This Web 2.0 stuff is silly, ‘thermal noise’
Robert Kaye’s Take on it.
R0ml’s talk that I missed 🙁
On Perverting Code
The first was on “Preventing Code”, about how businesses treat code like some sort of dangerous weapon that their employees must be prevented from using at all costs.
After talking about the fallacy of rhetoric in modern business language, the remainder of the session was dedicated to replacing our modern business language with words from antiquity, almost all of which have meanings very close to what we want. I’m not surprised that most of the words come from the literary (as in books) domain. We are, after all, writing and publishing software. Shamefully, no one recorded this session. I couldn’t even attempt to do it justice here. [I COULDN’T AGREE MORE!!!!]
Who says the English language doesn’t have a proper word for what we mean by free software? Liberal Software.
OSCON is unfolding
I flew to Portland on Monday to attend OSCON. There was a BOF about Women in Open Source that had a goal to folks on the ‘what is next’ as opposed to support for experiences that women have had. A few books were mentioned:
Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
Unlocking the Clubhouse Women in Computing
I happened to find this site of books from Center for Women and Information Technology when looking up these recommended book titles. It is a wealth of resources.
I put forward ShesGgeeky the (un)Conference that I am producing with some other women this fall. (More information to follow soon – I am working on getting the registration ready etc.) – If you want to save the date it is October 22-23. If you would like to help out be in touch.
Yesterday I went to the FLOSS Foundations meeting. We talked about Trademark issues for foundations and open source projects in the morning and fundraising in the afternoon. There was interest in leadership training in the group so I will now be working on moving an initiative forward in that area that I have been thinking about for a while.
I had a GREAT dinner with Mark Dilly and Greg Biggers at Rocket. This was all while David Recordon was being honored for his strategic efforts at the Google Open Source awards. Yeah DAVID!
Today I caught the end of Mark Shuttleworth’s talk in the Morning and attended
1) How to Heard Cats and influence people (I took notes blog post to follow)
2)the conversation on who gets to define what Open Source ‘is’ discussing the controversy between OSI and the SugarCRM and Social Text license. (OSI approved the license). This evening they had a conversation looking into the future of OSI – I offered that instead of talking into a mike for a layout set for 300 when there was 30 people in the room. So we did a fishbowl and I think got some where with their desire to define the issue they are trying to resolve. It was clear that more clarity on their mission would be helpful rather then just the tasks laid out in they bylaws.
I got a stunt double position at the OSGeo booth because a friend couldn’t make it so I filled in and temporarily became ‘geo-grrl’ fro the afternoon (I will be back there this morning.
There is alot of awareness of OpenID out there on trade show floor. Joyent is adopting it shortly. Rearden was considering it. I heard the positive inclinations from a key mainstream site that might adopt. (Ok I could have a major scoop here…but I have a feeling the programmer who let me in on this fact…was not supposed to have it show up ‘in print’ – so I am going to respect that.)
After the evening OSI conversation I headed “home” early to rest…because I have a red eye to BlogHer on tomorrow night. I would venture to say I am the only person attending both conferences this week.
Interop was AMAZING!
The Interop Event last week at Burton Group Catalyst was a huge milestone. The event lived up to its name…
cat·a·lyst [kat-l-ist] -noun
A person or thing that precipitates an event or change.
The energy in the room was really high. Everyone was excited. People said there was interest from enterprises (the attendees at the conference who were not vendors) in the technology and how they could help them with identity management.
It was so inspiring after all these years to actually see the vision manifest so concretely. I was at my first ‘identity meeting’ in June of 2003 when Planetwork hosted an ‘extra day’ with Identity Commons (1). It was described this way by an attendee:
I attended the “extra” day of the conference today. I was in a session that could have been called: all digital identity, all day and all of the night.
So four years later it was really amazing. As Dick highlighted we are finally up to “the chasm“.
As I was there looking at the sign on the wall in the photo and feeling the energy and all the work I really wished that Owen Davis and Andrew Nelson were there to witness it all. Hopefully they can come to the Internet Identity Workshop this December (3-5). The social issues that this new technology raises was one of the main reasons they founded Identity Commons in 2001. These topics are just starting to become really important to deal with and working groups are beginning to emerge. The fact that Cryptographic trust does not equate to Social Trust was highlighted by Neuenschwander in his talk on the final day. (in googling cryptographic trust I came across Chris Allen’s essay on Progressive Trust). We still have lots to ‘talk about’ to get it all figured out (more shared language and understanding to be built – see the last three paragraphs of this post).
Catalytic Catalyst OSIS demo tonight!
This is my third Burton Group Catalyst. It is hard to believe it has been two years since I first came to this event and that the first one I went to was before the first IIW in the Fall of 2005. Today when Gerry Gebel in his talk Can Frameworks Bring It All Together he highlighted The Internet Identity Workshop as a hub of activity in this area and even that it was an unconference!. OSIS one of the working groups of Identity Commons also was highlighted because of its activity and the interoperability demo tonight.
I have lots to say about what I have heard today on Net Nutrality, Power Tools, The Questions, The Community. I will be posting more on that later.
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Captain Control arrives at Burton Group Catalyst.
User Agent's Spotted at Supernova
I had a good time overall at supernova. I found two user-agent’s.
Well what is a user-agent? they are programs that work on the users behalf. I found this definition on Dr. K’s Blog:
it would seem that “user-centric” identity is about creating an “agent-in-the-middle” architecture for identity systems. An agent (usually automated) for the user sits in the middle of the identity flow, analyzing the flow request and determining how to handle the response. The determination would be based on policies defined by the user. It may require the agent to bring the user in for an explicit approval, or it may automatically approve or reject the flow based on previous user preferences (similar to the user checking the box that says “do not ask me again”). It may also apply a configured rule or policy to the identity flow that determines the action to take – ask user, approve, reject.
So who were these agents? One was WiMoto – when I fist talking to Scott Redmond he was explaining his tool…and I just didn’t like it..about advertising on my phone etc…THEN all of a sudden I ‘got it’ – I said “oh this is cool you have a user-agent.” I explained what it was from our ‘user-centric identity’ perspective. He was like sure I guess what is that we have. I met him early in the evening of a cocktail party where he would be demoing throughout. At the end he said he was eternally indebted to me for giving him that word “user-agent”. Apparently it let him communicate effectively to the other folks all night. It is now on the front page of their website. I still don’t get exactly how it works though.
The second user-agent I found was MyStrands – it is a mobile social networking app for night clubs. So you can text to the screen when you are in shared space together (like at the night club). It also lets you opt in to get information about the bands and clubs. So it is a promotion network. They look like their are going some where!
Arrington and Cantor live event comentary.
Marc always has a lot to say…Arrington..well he is opinionated and his own unique style of ‘moderating panels’ listening to these two audio back channel while listening to presentations…now that is interesting. They are planning to do this at Next Web in Amsterdam June 1. I hope they livecast this and share broadly.
I missed Marc’s presence at IIW. It would have been fun to have his reality check world view present. I have to say there was a tone of real work that got done at the event. It always amazes me the progress of the community at each event. Next time is going to be AMAZING. I hope that it gets on folks calendars.. IIW #5 will be Dec 3-5 and IIW #6 will be May 12-15 both at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. Also Phil and I are open to hosting Identity Open Spaces in conjunction with other conferences.
Prepare your Un-tallent
David Kerns just posted some great parody lyrics to the “Rainbow Connection” here. Eve Maler is again going to be the MC of the un-talent show on Tuesday evening at the Monte Carlo (formerly La Rioja, formerly formerly the Monte Carlo). Both original songs, poems, talent along with parody Lyrics to accompany Karaoke are welcome (and you can enlist the identity choir to sing with you).
You can ping her via e-mail or just talk to her onsite on Monday and Tuesday at IIW if you want to get up on stage.
Identity Panel at Mix07
We had a great panel at Mix07 Microsoft’s Developers Conference. It was moderated by Marc Canter, with Kim Cameron, Scott Kveton and myself.
We opened with a context setting presentation (up on slideshare) that I put together to help get us started.
Marc hammered the point home that Single-Sign-On was not ‘enough’ we all agreed.
We talked about security issues and how CardSpace was one option to address the challenge of phishing.
We talked about how Authentication (SSO) was different then data sharing and how we need to figure out how people connect data between different sessions.
I said we needed “myAPI” so that we could let people conntect their data and not give away their username and password to connect stuff up (like they have to do today).
Marc said that the IIW was just a talk fest that he would not go to. I pointed out that the IOS in Brussels last week OpenID and ID-WSF
Marc criticized Facebook for the terms that they release face-book data under saying it could not be shown to anyone except Facebook members. The Facebook guy stood up and said that he was misinterpreting the meaning of it – what it really said was that if a user had certain people who could see different things those preferences needed to be respected.
Marc got down on his knees and apologized while singing the end of an aria – it was very entertaining.
We also got to hear about Sharks and Toasters. Many people are afraid of sharks but more people die every year because from using a toaster but no one is afraid of toasters.
Over all it was a great session. Thanks to all who participated.
Identity Web 2.0 Expo Talk
Giving my talk at Web 2.0 was an interesting for a few reasons.
Firstly I tried to really step out and talk about what is next for identity and where the problem issues are looking forward assuming people knew about the past. I How to think about what we do in terms of people and community? How do we things with Identity for people in groups not just about ‘them’ in this user-centric but isolated. To articulate this I wrote what I hope is the heart of a great article that gets at where we are now with the identity layer, where we could go. This is the first two pages of the PDF. (yes doc it is a PDF and I will work on an HTML version).
Secondly, the audience was not who I expected. I thought this was the regular ‘tech crowd’ I meet often. Instead it was people coming from big companies trying to figure out this web 2.0 stuff and people buidling things who travelled a long way to be here. Not really who I typically think of in the O’Reilly scene. So for all of you who wanted ‘the download’ about all the identity ‘bits’ the basics of all that on the third and forth pages of this PDF.
I learned from this experience and I have had two opportunities to really be on stage at O’Reilly events in the past two months and I learned quite a bit from both of them.
Looking forward I am going to be working on some core content to speak with ‘completely’ normal and somewhat technically literate people about identity. I am also going to be practicing these talks more regularly.
I also have thoughts about what is next in terms of the problems that the identity community needs to address and can address moving forward. This is where the opportunity lies if you are an enterpriser, venture person or coder. These opportunities and issues are deeper then code and money stepping into the heart of what it means to be human in the networked world. What we do now on the web in relationship to this REALLY MATTERS.
Finding Friday Feast from Marcia
I found Marcia Conner’s Blog because she linked to me in a Friday Feast Question asking if she had ever met a blogging friend in person. I scrolled down her blog and found the answers the friday feast weekly. I clicked through and found list of interesting questions that come out every friday. I might try answer them some fridays now.
Last Friday’s questions were:
Appetizer
When you were a child, which crayon color was your favorite?
Soup
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being highest), how likely would you be to change jobs if it required you to move?
Salad
Take all the numbers in your birthday and your phone number and add them up, one by one. What’s the total?
Main Course
Have you ever “re-gifted” anything? If so, what was it and who did you pass it on to?
Dessert
Name something you need from the store.