I just found this great photo on Flickr. Thought i would try uploading it as my first ever photoblog post. If you have not checked out Mary’s company Dabble you should – it is they way you can share cool video’s like THE WORD: Managization with your friends just go to http://www.dabble.com
Identity Woman
Let the Vlogging begin
So, I went to VloggerCon and what does one do when one goes to a cutting edge technology conference espousing yet another cutting edge technology – one learns enough to ‘get it’ and dive in. So I began video blogging on Blip.tv I did two posts today on identity. I started out with a minute from Christine (she was at IIW) talking about why identity is critical and what will be its breakthrough moment. This is followed up by Mike from Blip.tv itself talking about why identity would be so useful to the emerging ecology of companies and how it helps them be like swarming smart pebbles.
I plan to vlog at all the conferences coming up. Let the Vlogging begin.
Technorati Tags: conference, identity, unconference, vloggercon, Web2.0, women
Flickr Photo Fun – Identity and Attribution.
My faith in humanity was re-affirmed today at VloggerCon I am surfing around while listening to the ‘net neutrality session.’ I found that the anarchitect had used a Flickr Photo I posted of a community garden in NYC. I love Flickr and the power of sharing (it is nice to get credit for it).
Identity Woman Appears on Geek Entertainment Television!
If you haven’t heard of geek entertainment television you should check it out. I made it on to one of their latest episodes. “What is the Square Root of Net” from the Net Squared conference. Of course my answer to the question was ‘identity’… I am the second to last on the clip so you can scroll to the end if you just want to see me :)..
Another episode that I quite like is one shown in the ‘how to video blog’ session that covered the Maker Faire including the mulit-story mechanical giraffe.
They Also have a recent episode from the NerdSalon on Roomba Cock Fighting.
An Exciting Summer coming up…
I am getting ready for an exciting next few weeks and busy summer. Here is the plan. I have posted all of these on my sidebar in the where I will be section.
Saturday(10) and Sunday(11) coming up is VloggerCon.
On Monday(12) I am going to stop by the Liberty Alliance Web Services informational meeting – to understand those elements of identity.
Tuesday(13) I will be going to some of the activities surrounding Where 2.0.
Wednesday(14) to Friday(16) I will be at Burton Group Catalyst Conference.
Saturday(17) I will be in Boston for the Organizers Collaborative.
Monday(19) to Wednesday(21) I will be at the Identity Mashup at Berkman.
Thursday(22) I will participate in some of the activities surrounding SuperNova.
Friday(23) and Saturday(24) I will be going to some of Dave Winers BloggerCon.
Friday(24) – Sunday(25) I will be participating in SFBarCamp
I am strongly considering attending Gnomedex and then will head to the Oregon Country Fair.
Then I am back in the Bay to facilitate Mashup Camp July 12-13.
For vacation I am heading to Vancouver for the Folk Music Festival July 14-16.
Then I am going to be facilitating Identity Open Space July 20-21.
I am presenting on Face-2-Face: Group Process for communities at OSCON on the 24th and will be around all week. I fly to San Jose for BlogHer.
I am going to be at the National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation August 3-6 in San Francisco.
I head to HollyHock for a break and workshop on Leadership with an amazing teacher Robert Gass. Then it is down to Seattle and off to Burning Man (for the first time).
Then it is back to the Bay for an interesting sandwich Digital Identity World with Power to the Peaceful the weekend before and Earth Dance the weekend afterwards.
viva data liberation @ Net Squared today
I am connecting up to the social change and technology part of my persona today at Net Squared. Tomorrow I am going to be leading a session on identity in the ‘making it happen’ part of the conference.
The opening session mentioned the emergence of the Social Web – I was like wow – we have been using that to describe what happens when identity becomes part of the web.
At the conference
Seven sectors are participating:
- Philanthropists
- International NGO
- American Nonprofits
- Infratech – the big companies
- Web Services companies
- Digerati
- Nonprofit Technology Assitance Providers the “Helper community”
- The opening speaker is Angela Glover CEO of Policy Link – Black Woman for the opening keynote. Well it is certainly out of the norm of regular tech conferences – Hopefully the rest will be out of the box too.She began by talking about the regional context. The economy setting the stage for opportunity – not just income support and raising minimum wage but how to build wealth and assets. Technology is how we achieve what we want to achieve – in light of need for democratic participation.
She did call it two point zero…maybe that is not under Tim’s Trademark.
(almost) Direct quote from Angela Glover – We need to liberate Data – structured DATA SHARING. - I was so excited when I heard this – I wrote and ad hoc banner for the table
- Viva – data liberation.
Free the Data Use Open Standards XDI (XRI Data Interchange) - Beth Kanter has a picture of it.
- She closed by saying that we want people to be agents for change on their own behalf.
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In Seattle Next week starting on the 10th
I will be in Seattle from the 10th. I will be flying home on the 18th and may take a detour to on the 16th Portland before heading home.
If you are in Seattle and want to talk / meet up let me know.
New Newsreader Needed -Help
I have been using NetNewsWire since I began reading blogs. The trouble is that it is WAY SLOW. Does anyone have a not slow client side mac RSS reader they like?
I can’t stand what I have now it takes like 5 seconds to move from one post to the next. I know I have a lot of posts – cause I am keeping way more posts then I actually read. I do this cause so far there are not good engines that let me search small slices of the blogosphere well. So saving them on my computer seems like the way through.
Free Phone but only if you use the number we give you????
I just got a pitch from the Spring Ambassador program for a free phone and free calling and data for 6 months. I am like cool (some how I have landed as a tech somebody cause only those folks get free phone offers). I can transfer the number that is only good in the bay area to this new phone and get out of the MetroPCS getto that I am in. All of you who know I have 2 cel phone (one for the bay area one for outside) will be happy to have me be integrated back on to one phone.
I write them asking that I have a phone number I have be used. They write back and say:
Because of the way the Ambassador phones are set up, you are unable to change the phone number of the phone for the duration of the 6 months. However, you are able to transfer your existing number to the phone after the 6 month period, if you wish.
Thank you,
The Sprint Ambassador Team
Notice they didn’t even sign their names…so much for having a real market conversation between people. I am just talking to their “team.”
It proves how dumb the phone system is. If these guys can’t figure out how to technically give me my phone number to use it doesn’t do me a whole lot of good. In terms of identifier management it just adds to the complexity – not decreasing it.
Hopefully they will figure this out and let me use my own number.
If it weren't for flickr…
I am at Mix06 and it seems that I missed a Vegas moment at the show. This relates to my experience this morning I was treated to women serving men cocktails while gambling in the lobby of the conference hotel and my hotel wearing nothing but bathing suits with skirts. Perhaps this was in jest. None the less I still wonder why the need to bring out a woman in such an outfit when there are so few of us actually in the audience and it just reinforces less then ideal objectified frames around around female sexuality.
Thanks for the women's shirts – Matt
I just had a fun time at SXSW. One of the highlights was getting a wearable girl ‘t’ for the first time ever. Matt “mr. wordpress” was handing them out at Bar Camp Austin. (normally when you get girl teas they are ‘way to tight’ for my body architecture – so I have a few but they are unwearable). These ones are GREAT! I am wearing mine on the plane on the way to PC Forum.
In the t-shirt vein there was this one I know HTML (How to Meet Ladies) and the I was once internet famous.
On that note Mary and I were leaving the party and introductions happen and the guy meeting us says to her – oh your internet famous.
The best talk at SXSW (for the little bit we were there) was Creating Passionate Users. I hope that some of what I learned can be applied to the usercentric identity space.
Panels are yucky…
emerging tech I want – office hours application.
I would like to have office hours. What would these look like.
Friday from 11-2 this friday I have time to have ‘calls’ with people. They could either be one-on-one on pending items or a group of people who want to collectively come and pop in. I would like to publish my ‘office hours’ and have those who need to talk to me this week sign up for slots. I could see spending 1/2 an hour of that time in a conversation with a 1/2 dozen folks about identity commons. I would be open to folks requesting time but would like to know who they are some of what we typically call identity.
My conversation on passive authentication overheard last week.
Eric took the liberty of blogging this.
Kaliya: I don’t like Art Coviello’s thing about passive authentication. I don’t want them watching me. I want control.
Eric: ok – but passive authentication is already happening all the time – and its *preventing* identity fraud.
Kaliya: yea – but that’s not the way it should be done.
Eric: I agree, but would you have them turn it off immediately and watch fraud go up?
Kaliya: No, I’d have them change the way they do it.
Eric: I agree, but that can’t happen overnight – so in the meantime, would you have them turn it off and have fraud go up?
Kaliya: ugh.
RSA Wireless "so 'secure' you can't get on the net" .
Here at RSA the wireless is so secure that you can’t get on it.
I did what I was told and picked up my “personal” login key before the event and then while plugged in to either net downloaded the help document – It is only written for Windows users, so that was no help.
There are long lines at the help desk.
It makes the case for usable security.
XML GRRL to meet Identity Woman at OpenCMS Summit
Blogs are fun….I just learned that I will be on a panel with XMLGrrl author of Pushing String on Thursday at the OpenCMS Summit. I have been reading her blog for a long time.
I just got here this afternoon already I am longing for open space process (believe me we tried to convince them to use it). I lived through one terribly facilitated session. As a few of us who were in that session settled into the next one I mentioned that I was considering putting in a proposal for this years OSCON to do a session on meeting/group facilitation skills. Several folks were very supportive of the idea so I am am going to do it.
'what is your name' – when I order coffee it is "Lu"
I went into a coffee shop here in Portland and ordered a raspberry latte. They asked me what my name was – really what they want to know is what ‘identifier’ they can call out to let me know my coffee is ready. If you have an easy name like Kate or John or Kathy – you just use that. I have ‘Kaliya’ and really don’t want to explain how to say it or spell it just to get my coffee. So I use my default “Lu”. This was the nick name I picked up while playing water polo at CAL (UC Berkeley) and believe it or not it was a derivative of Kaliya…
Kaliya
Kalua
(I had this suite with a giant orchid like flower on it (the whole front)
Lula
LuLu follow shortly
Lu
Identity Woman has Identity Stolen
This really happened believe it or not. It is not ElastaGirl pretending to be me or someone named Identity Chick emerging on the scene. I had my one bank/credit card counterfited used for transactions and draining my bank account to well below zero.
I knew something was wrong when on friday I got a call from Visa’s fraud center asking me to call them about some suspicious activities. I had gone through this before – it was when i had bought domain names from a france based seller and they had called to check with me that indeed I had bought something from france. I was not worried and figured this time would be something similar.
I waited a day to get back to them and called on Saturday night. They wanted to review about 30 transactions on my card…many were things I remembered. One was for sure not me $321 from Macys in Pleasanton (a suburb over the Oakland Hills) on Jan 26th the day I was at etel (in Burlingame that day). They said my card was turned off after this transaction. So I am thinking that I have only $321 of fraud to deal with.
That day I had $1300 in my bank account (I know cause I withdrew $100 that morning).
Monday morning I had negative 1300 in my account.
It is emotionally awful. Who could have gotten it where. Is it ‘just my VISA number’? What if they know more about me – my birth date (is that anywhere on the internet publicly I wonder?)
Do I have to close my account cause the know how to access it? If I do that am I really safe? Who to trust now? is a question arising in me.