My results:
You are Superman
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You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.  |
me
Earthquake city
We had our 3rd ‘you can feel it’ earthquake in the past 4 days. Here is the link on USGS site for the lastest one we had 30 minuets ago. You can always click here to see the latest quakes in the US. It makes me worried about a ‘big one’ we have almost no supplies like water in case the water mains break.
CALEA in the news
So my legal namesake CALEA has been a source of interesting eyebrow raising for those who know its name when they are introduced to me.
Today it is in the news again.
Paul Kouroupas, vice president of regulatory affairs for Global Crossing, strongly criticized the Federal Communications Commission’s broadening of a 1994 law–originally intended to cover telephone providers–as disproportionately costly, complex, and riddled with privacy concerns. His company is one of the world’s largest Internet backbone providers.
“Our customers are large Fortune 500 companies–not too many of those companies are conducting drug deals or terrorist activities out of Merrill Lynch’s offices or using their phones in that way,” Kouroupas said at an event here sponsored by the DC Bar Association. “By and large we don’t get wiretap requests, yet we’re faced with the costs to come into compliance,” which he estimated at $1 million.
At issue is an order issued last fall by the Federal Communications Commission that set a deadline of May 14, 2007, by which most broadband and Internet phone providers are required to reengineer their networks for easier snooping by law enforcement. The move expanded the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, which Congress wrote to impose obligations on telephone companies, but not Internet providers.
"joining" the tribe
I went to Cal today (for those of you not in the know that is the University of California at Berkeley – the first school in the UC system so it is “California”). It was homecoming weekend but I really went because there was a Men’s Water Polo Game – vs Stanford. I played water polo at Cal and really love the game so it was great to go back to the pool and watch a great game.
Because of all the homecoming stuff the Alumni Association was out in force and I signed up for a lifetime membership (while I still can get the reduced rate for recent graduates). I still remember my first week at Cal as a freshman feeling like I had just joined this tribe and would belong in some way for life. My experience of Cal and feeling a part of “the tribe” is truly part of my identity. Having said that I don’t think that a university degree of any kind is the be all and end all. I know for me my university experience was wonderful and the right thing. I also don’t privilege degree holding people over those without degrees as a sort of ‘life policy’.
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.
Googlezon 2.0
This movie is very similar to the Googlezon ‘future documentary’. It is set 10 years in the future (2015) and shares a narrative of the unfolding of new finical market structures. AmazonBay is competing with GoogleCorp in this one though. Worth viewing here.
"getting Attention"
At the Syndicate Conference Seth Goldstein and Steve Gilmore were on screen talking about Attention Trust (via Isight). Seth started talking about how delicious sold for x-million dollars and that meant that Yahoo paid them between $30 and $100 for a persons links in the system. Seth said that as users start of figure out the equity of their attention they invest in systems that they will demand new models of equity (read $/resources) emerging. Lots of folks in the crowd really could not follow what he was saying or get it. This article makes it really clear. Who owns the wisdom of the crowd? The Crowd.
There was much discussion about the point at which things do get screwed up: Somebody grows by being open. Then they want to stay on top so they exert control (getting greedy about trying to keep you in or about money or information). When they exert too much control, then competitors can gang up by being more open (regaining the advantage that made the big guy big) or the public the big guy serves can desert.
All of which is to say that there are values that must be shared to succeed. But we’re still not sure what those values are; we’re still scribbling down Hammurabi’s Code. Once again, we are building a new society here.
I believe we start with the notions that:
* We all want to control our contributions.
* We all want the community to benefit if we in turn benefit.
* We expect mutual trust in the forms of transparency and honesty
* And we all — individual, collective, enabler — find uncivil behavior (spam, fraud, hate) unacceptable.
But there’s one more fundamental notion that informs this new society, a notion that big companies and institutions invariably forget because they were build in the old order:
This is no longer a centralized world, a world controlled by those institutions. This is a decentralized world, a world controlled by us.
And if you try to take control away from us, you will lose. It used to be that you could take control away from us and we had nowhere to go. But in this post-scarcity world, we can always go somewhere else for content or information or service. There’s always another news story, always another email service, always another search engine. Thus my first law, once again: Give us control and we will use it. Don’t and you will lose us.
Domocracy 2.0
I am excited to read about this effort Democracy 2.0. I know a lot of folks that have been working hard on innovative upgrades to our current democracy among them Tom Attlee and the National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation. This year there was also the release of Extreme Democracy.
I am hoping that in the coming year the tools that are being developed around identity can have some applicability to improved civil engagement, collective decision making and building more livable, thriving communities.
Democracy 2.0 Memes are articulated here.
Zen, Silent Holidays, TransPeople, Back in the World
I abstained from Christmas for the second year in a row. It was fun to watch it all go buy and not participate. I had a few flashed of positivity that made me think next year I could get into the season again. I had papers in hand for the first time in 4 years to go to Canada and back but my aunt said I couldn’t sleep in her basement so… I just declined to return.
I found a retreat to go on at Manzanita Village for 10 days. I was not quite thinking it would be about 6 1hour+ sits each day – this with meals and a work shift left little time for myself. All that meditating and eating in silence was GREAT though. Of course they didn’t mention Christmas at all (Even though I was there for Christmas) but we did all 8 nights of Hanukkah and 7 of Kwanzaa. I should add that not mentioning Christmas at all was sad for me – I generally think of myself as a happy Episcopalian and I get tired of inter-religious meaning ‘everything but christianity’ in California.
I got thinking about our community around identity while there because there was several non-binary-gender choice folks who were also meditating. Are we going to build identity systems that are inclusive of non-binary gender choices?
I sat beside a young Transwoman named Hanah, beside her was a woman named Fred who by the end of her stay was wearing a bright orange button that said I might be transsexual. There was a Transgender Man named Jaran. It is not to surprising that there would be some transgender folks at the treat because Caterian Reed one of the Dharma teachers there is a Transwoman. In the end sitting there meditating – people are just people.
It is good to be back now. Everything is moving just a bit slower. I am breathing more consciously and overall refreshed. I just did a sidebar revamp that includes events that I am going to or might go to all the way to October (you have to scroll down to get it).
Drupal Developer/Business meetup tomorrow…New Location
So the meetup will be tomorrow. Looks like we will have a good crowd in attendance 🙂
Here is the link to the wiki with the new address.
Drupal Developer and Business Meetup January 5th in SF
So we finally found a wiki to announce and organize this.
Please go there and RSVP – contribute to the Agenda.
Join us for a good community building meeting, address your technical challenges building in Drupal and connect to others building businesses based on the platform.
Doc just gave me this to read about Drupal (and every open source project including Linux the subject of the article).
Participatory Panopticon tracking the CIA's Torture Taxi
I was thinking about the participatory panopticon concept the other day when reading this article in the local weekly paper about amateur plane spotters tracking the movements of the CIA planes around the world that are moving torture victims to of shore destinations. The cover story was ‘Torture Air’.
Jamais (the originator of the term participatory panopticon) has this article today about how Yahoo Research Labs have come closer to making it more real with face recognition.
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog
I found a reproduction of the cartoon here.
I just thought it would be fun to find the real thing since the IIW logo is a take of on this.
Interent 2.0 – deep cultural consequences
I have been reading Sherry Turkles book Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. The ironic thing is that it was written in 1995 before the Web really took off and became mainstream. I am going to finish it over my retreat. So far she has gotten me to reflect on the nature of our relationship to machines and how children growing up relate to machines. She has been studying their interaction with them over several decades and in different cultural contexts. I am reminded her work when reading Internet 2.0: the economic, social and cultural consequences of the new Internet
There are 4 levels to this model.
Disintermediation, Long Tail – which are concepts in wide circulation already. When it gets interesting is around Reformation and Continuous Presence.
The Internet is a reformation machine. It will create new fundamentals of and for our world. It change the units of analysis and the relationships between them
I think it does a good job of articulating the challenge to the ‘shape’ of our cultural dynamic.
The reformation model says fundamental categories of our culture (particularly the self and the group and the terms with which we think about them) are changing…. This is a change in the basic terms of reference, the very internal blue print with which we understand and construct the world.
Continuous Presence
One way to assess innovations is to make a guess about where we are headed. I think our economic, social and cultural destination might be this: we will be continuously connected to all knowledge and all people with a minimum of friction, and priviledge will be measured, in part, by how good are the filters with which we make contact with all but only the people and knowledge we care about.
something more?…NSA using new technology
The best explanation of the NSA wire tapping situation seems to be that they are using some new kind of technology that FISA would not approve of. More can be read about this here.
Vehicle Tracking in the UK
This is just plane Orwellian.
The UK will be tracking the movements of all cars on the roads.
The Identity Film ClubIdentity Film Club: First installment
I saw Syriana for the third time in three days yesturday.
Remember back at the internet identity workshop in October? In the closing circle when everyone was talking about books they recommend, I floated the idea that we might have an identity movies/films to broaden the public dialogue about identity issues and raise social literacy on the issues. So, I think we have found our first film. Syriana. This movie is going to get a lot of play this spring – and will be a strong candidate for several academy awards. There are many differentidentity issues covered in nuanced ways ripe for discussion.
Does anyone want to help me work on a discussion guide? I wonder if anyone has configured a site do this sort of thing? Sort of seems like a good thing for to host on a Drupal site. I am open to volunteers to help. I will put up a page on the iiw wiki.
I am open to suggestions about what the next movie could be – perhaps one in video stores.
namespace clash – even for kaliya
Today I got this note…
I was surprised to find you I was searching out my 5 year old granddaughter’s name thinking I would purchase her name as a domain for her.
A five year old with my name will not get to be =kaliya 🙁 oh well.
I am buying up some other =’s names today for me and some gifts for the family for christmas. They won’t get it but maybe in the next year they might understand what I do in california. I just changed my contact link here to =iwoman.
Structured Blogging and 'structured' tags (I-tags)
Yesterday we had the Kum-by-ya sing along lead by Marc Canter for 40 companies on board with Structured Blogging/Content ad hoc open standards.
Salim was a big leader behind the effort and started blogging yesterday too at – You’ve Got Ismail.
Mary mentioned I-Tags open standard Drummond had just got the spec up… there for you all to see.
Today Marc plugged i-tags from the stage today at the morning panel on syndication and RSS.
Vocab Watch:Sperfs
Here is an example of what I’m caling a “spref”:
218.22.246.34 – – [13/Dec/2005:03:11:21 -0500] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 200 44403 “http://bontril.threethreethree.us/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC; AtHome021)
The geekier portion of the readership will recognize this is a line from the web server log file. See that bolded URL? That’s “spref”, a fake referer [sic] that is supposed to make you think that somebody from that page came to your site, and intrigue you enough that you go and visit that page. Of course, this referral is completely artificial, there is really no link to your site on that page, and you end up at some v1@gr@ site. So now we have: spam + refer(r)er = spref.
Caliya with a C
This is my penance for spelling Marc’s name with a k yesterday.