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Skype for Business is here

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from the ready-for-the-bigtime dept : Skype Announces Skype For Business

“Skype has launched a new offensive to go after small business dollars. From the BusinessWeek article: ‘The company is unveiling Skype for Business, aimed at small companies with fewer than 10 employees, on Mar. 9. Skype for Business will include a new Web site, Skype.biz, as well as a host of features and hardware. While Skype has introduced features appealing to business users one by one for the past six months, the new announcement marks the beginning of a concerted effort.'”

Password Security: What Users Know and What They Actually Do

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Password Security: What Users Know and What They Actually Do posted on Bruce Schneier’s blog.
The finding that participants in the current study use such simplistic practices to develop passwords is supported by similar research by Bishop and Klein (1995) and Vu, Bhargav & Proctor (2003) who found that even with the application of password guidelines, users would tend to revert to the simplest possible strategies (Proctor et al., 2002). In the current study, nearly 60% of the respondents reported that they do not vary the complexity of their passwords depending on the nature of the site and 53% indicated that they never change their password if they are not required to do so. These practices are most likely encouraged by the fact that users maintain multiple accounts (average = 8.5) and have difficulty recalling too many unique passwords.

Patriot Act Renewed – BooHoo

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From the not-dead-yet dept: Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal
“The Senate has passed a renewal of the Patriot act, 89-10, after two extensions caused by months of negotiations. The only thing standing in the way of a full renewal is a House vote, expected to pass next week. The renewal comes with some privacy protections attached, however, some worry they are only cosmetic. Some lawmakers who voted for the package acknowledged deep reservations about the power it would grant to any president. “Our support for the Patriot Act does not mean a blank check for the president,” said Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who voted to pass the bill package. Certain lawmakers supported passing the bill even though they were still wary about it – Arlen Specter urged his colleagues to pass it even as he promised to introduce a new measure and hold hearings on how to fix it. Terrorism aside, the bill also includes new legislation that has almost nothing to do with terrorism, like one measure, which would make it harder for illicit labs to obtain ingredients for methamphetamine by requiring pharmacies to sell nonprescription cold medicines only from behind the counter. I know that people like Arlen Specter promise further hearings – but why pass what you know is flawed?”

Net Neutrality Bill put forward – WooHoo!

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This was posted on IP Democracy about a Net neutrality Bill.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) unveiled his net neutrality bill today during a media conference call (MP3 here), outlining the bill’s provisions, which include the following:
– Broadband providers will not be allowed to interfere with, block, degrade, alter, modify or change traffic on the Internet;
– Broadband providers will not be allowed to create a priority lane where content providers can buy quicker access to customers, while those who do not pay the fee are left in the slow lane;
– Broadband providers must allow consumers to choose which devices they use to connect to the Internet while they are on the net;
– Consumers should have non-discriminatory access and service; and
– The broadband world should have a transparent system in which consumers, Internet content, and applications companies have access to the rates, terms, and conditions for Internet service.
The bill also has provisions covering a complaint-filing process at the FCC, which aggrieved parties could use in the event of a problem…….

The Times will subscribe itself into irrelevance

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I have been running into a lot of NY Times ‘premium’ content this week.
How on earth are they going to be relevant in this age of connectivity if you can’t see their site? They would make so much money of they eyeballs that did show up if they didn’t try to reduce it by 20x at least the number of people who actually look at these pages.
Young people – who are hyper connected will not pay for NY Times content it is like going to make it self totally irrelevant to the next generation. Sad but true unless they get a clue.

Datamining article in NYTimes

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Data mining is already being used in a diverse array of commercial applications — whether by credit card companies detecting and stopping fraud as it happens, or by insurance companies that predict health risks. As a result, millions of Americans have become enmeshed in a vast and growing data web that is constantly being examined by a legion of Internet-era software snoops.
Although Congress abruptly canceled the program in October 2003, the legislation provided a specific exemption for “processing, analysis and collaboration tools for counterterrorism foreign intelligence.”
“The theory is that the automated tool that is conducting the search is not violating the law,” said Mark D. Rasch, the former head of computer-crime investigations for the Justice Department and now the senior vice president of Solutionary, a computer security company. But “anytime a tool or a human is looking at the content of your communication, it invades your privacy.”
Much of the recent work on data mining has been aimed at even more sophisticated applications. The National Security Agency has invested billions in computerized tools for monitoring phone calls around the world — not only logging them, but also determining content — and more recently in trying to design digital vacuum cleaners to sweep up information from the Internet.
[Read more…] about Datamining article in NYTimes

Freeky Identity Stuff in Slashdot this week..

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From the would-be-funnier-if-it-wasn’t-true dept: Camera’s in homes

An anonymous reader writes “In one of the most blatant and frightening statements made on privacy, the Associated Press reports that Houston’s police chief wants surveillance cameras in apartment buildings and even private homes. Chief Harold Hurtt wants building permits to require cameras in shopping malls and large apartment complexes. He also wants them in private homes if the homeowner has called the police repeatedly. So, if you’re in Houston, don’t call the cops too much, or they might install a camera the next time they show up. And what does Hurtt have to say about privacy concerns? ‘I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?'”

From the welcome-to-the-brave-new-world dept: Policing Porn Isn’t Part of The Job

Rick Zeman wrote to mention a Washington Post article about an incident at a Bethesda library. Two uniformed men from a Homeland Security detachment made an announcement stating that pornography was not acceptable viewing at the library. They then questioned a patron’s choice of reading material. From the article: “A librarian intervened, and the two men went into the library’s work area to discuss the matter. A police officer arrived. In the end, no one had to step outside except the uniformed men. They were officers of the security division of Montgomery County’s Homeland Security Department, an unarmed force that patrols about 300 county buildings — but is not responsible for enforcing obscenity laws.”

From the tricky-part-is-finding-the-right-medium dept: Creating a Backboneless Internet?

Peter Trepan asks: “The Internet is the best thing to happen to the free exchange of ideas since… well… maybe ever. But it can also be used as a tool for media control and universal surveillance, perhaps turning that benefit into a liability. Imagine, for instance, if Senator McCarthy had been able to steam open every letter in the United States. In the age of ubiquitous e-mail and filtering software, budding McCarthys are able and willing to do so. I Am Not A Network Professional, but it seems like all this potential for abuse depends upon bottlenecks at the level of ISPs and backbone providers. Is it possible to create an internet that relies instead on peer-to-peer connectivity? How would the hardware work? How would the information be passed? What would be the incentive for average people to buy into it if it meant they’d have to host someone else’s packets on their hard drive? In short, what would have to be done to ensure that at least one internet remains completely free, anonymous, and democratized?”

Identity Gang 2 – How did John get involved?

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This was the big identity event that I missed while I was away. The good thing about podcasting is that you get to listen to it after it is recorded. There was a question that Doc asked John Clippinger about where he really got involved with the identity conversation…he really was a bit stumped and was like PCForum…John Clippinger and Paul Trevethick came out the Planetwork in 2004 where identity was a big topic of discussion. I met them there.
I knew that Harvard was critical to get involved in the discussion so when I found out about the conference on Internet and Society I flew out there specifically to talk at length with John about what Identity Commons and i-names. We had a great meeting in the Charles hotel for about two and a half hours. I also on that trip spoke at length with Paul and Mary.
Then when we were out at PCForum for a pre-Forum identity gang. John couldn’t make that but got there late in the day. I set up a breakfast meeting with Owen Davis, Drummond Reed and John Clipppinger to talk about identity matters including how to get support from the big players for the kind of research and dialogue needed to address the social concerns. It seems the subsequent conversations went well and they secured some funding.
So…Doc that is part of the story about how John Clippinger and the Berkman Center got involved in the identity conversation.

WikiPedia's psydo Identity

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I came across this article and it highlights wikipedia’s approach to Identity.
Wikipedia tracks unregistered users’ IP addresses — which, with a court order, can usually be traced back to a real-world identity — because it has no other way of telling if a slew of trash articles are coming from a single source. Wikipedia does not track the IP addresses of registered users because their pseudonyms serve the same purpose. So requiring people to log in will make them more anonymous, not less. But it will enable Wikipedia’s reputation system to operate more effectively on new entries. And it will cut down on the ~5,000 new entries created every day, of which about 3,500 are obvious junk (“Asdfasdf” is a particularly popular entry) quickly weeded out by the Wikipedians who patrol the site.
Allowing unregistered users to edit existing articles plays into that reputation system. Says Jimmy: “Why do we allow anonymous users to edit existing articles when we know that the flow of edits from anonymous users is worse than from logged-in users? It implicitly self-selects trolls because we see the IP number but not the login name.”
Jimmy thinks the the mainstream media misunderstood this story because they have a cognitive problem when it comes to anonymity and accountability:

The thing that people always latch onto is that it has to do with anonymity. But it doesn’t have to do with knowing who you are [in the real world] . We care about pseudo-identity, not identity. The fact that a certain user has a persistent pseudo-identity over time allows us to gauge the quality of that user without having any idea of who it really is.
Trying to find out who people really are is a fool’s mission on the Net. You could get a credit card ID but that doesn’t even tell you very much: This is Bob Smith of Missouri. But if an editor identifies himself as Zocky [the handle of a trusted Wikipedian], I know it’s good even though I don’t know who Zocky is [in the real world] because I know Zocky’s history on the site. I know he’s not a spammer, I know he’s not making things up — at least within the value of “know” that’s relevant in this case.

….The media have a cognitive problem with a publisher of knowledge that modestly does not claim perfect reliability, does not back up that claim through a chain of credentialed individuals, and that does not believe the best way to assure the quality of knowledge is by disciplining individuals for their failures. Arrogance, individual heroism, accountability and discipline … those have been the hallmarks of the institutions that propagate knowledge.2

Drupal Developer and Business Meetup January 5th in SF

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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).

This week: Identity powder keg in California

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While we will be hanging out at Syndicate this week singing “Kum Bah Ya” about new “standards” for micro content and structured blogging and the announcement about i-tags. There is an impending “identity powder keg” that could go off this week in Califorina (and across the country) with the pending execution of Tookie Williams on Tuesday December 13th.
I googled – “Identity” and “Tookie” some interesting articles came up. They get to the heart of one element of ‘identity’ to have a meaningful place in a socio-cultural context. To be seen by others (afterall identity is what others say about us).
From Black News.com:

In a candid, and revealing moment, Stanley “Tookie” Williams told a visitor at San Quentin prison that he helped found the notorious Crips street gang because he wanted to smash everyone, make a rep, get respect and dignity, and that he wanted his name to be known everywhere. He got his wish in more ways than he ever dreamed of. The demons that drove Williams in his reckless push for identity and prominence also drove him to become the nation’s best known condemned prisoner. He faces execution December 13 for multiple murders.
William’s revelatory glimpse into his thug past tells much about the anger, alienation, and desperation that have turned legions of young black men into social pariahs, and that propel them to wreak murder and mayhem in mostly poor, black communities. But today’s Tookies didn’t crop up from nowhere. The transformation in the early 1970s of the old-line civil rights groups into business, and professional friendly organizations, and black middle-class flight from the inner city neighborhoods, left the black poor, especially young black males, socially fragmented, politically rudderless, and economically destitute. Lacking visible role models of success and achievement, and competitive technical skills and professional training to compete in a rapidly shifting economy, they were shoved even further to the outer margins of American society.

Identity based DRM – will the 'get it'?

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I am not a fan of the MPAA, RIAA or any other big industry conglomeration trying to hold on to their existing business model of selling creative works (before you view/listen to them).
I have like many many folks participated in this system. I have bought first albums then cassettes and then CD’s (and now people buy songs online too – but I have yet to). When I make a purchase of these artists works I have bought the right to listen to them freely. People who had albums upgraded to cassette tapes (maybe) but likely for sure upgraded to CD’s. If they did this they bought the work ‘twice.’ In the digital realm it gets even stranger where if you buy a piece of music on apple i-tunes you only get to copy it three times.. from one computer to the next to the next. Then it ‘runs out’ of copies. mmmm…but didn’t buy the right to listen to it when you first bought it no mater which medium you as the owner of that music choose to listen to it in.
So far the whole frame around DRM has been device based. This means every time there is a new form that plays media – (record player, cassette deck, CD Player, MP3 on desktop, ipods and zen players….and there will be more in the future.
If DRM is to exist and not completely alienate those who are the end users of music it should be identity based. I – ME – I buy a copy of a song and I get to listen to it forever on what ever the ‘medium’ of the day is.
I would like to propose a better system that still means folks get money. Music and other digital work is completely FREE.
It is all on the web and we call all access it all. I as a listener to music only have so much time that I spend listening to music. I allocate some amount that I will contribute to the music payment pool in a month $50 – $500. Then the attention ‘given’ to each song is recorded. The money I allocate amongst all the artist/podcaster etc. is distributed between them (perhaps with me giving particularly enjoyable ones a bit more) based on my attention data stream. The artist I listen to actually get money! If I like them and listen to them over years and years they will get more money then they would if they sold me a song once. This of course needs a functioning micro-payments system it may be worth the music industries business to actually do this.

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Getting to the Promised Layer

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The Internet Identity Workshop just got a promotion on O’Reilly with the publishing of an article I wrote. The Identity 2.0 Gathering: Getting to the Promised Layer (it occurred to me after it was already published that the last word should be Layer instead of Land – oh well).
Here is the opening….

There were many who thought that an identity solution would emerge to support single sign on (SSO) shortly after the Web’s emergence in 1994. An SSO solution has proven very elusive. Solving internet identity management, creating an efficient, reliable ecosystem, is often alluded to as “The Holy Grail.” One of the reasons for this elusiveness is the fact that identity is no small matter. It lies at the core of who we are as social beings. There are many ways to think about what identity is, such as: how we define ourselves (self-assertions), how others see us (facts about us), and what others think about us (our reputation).
When tackling the problem of representing these elements, the first challenge is settling on a protocol used in a system that is flexible and broad enough to encompass the enormously wide range of ways people around the globe use and define identity. Identity protocols are not like TCP/IP–simply just connecting two machines. While reading Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, I came across this quote that summed up the challenge. “Protocol is synonymous with possibility … Protocol outlines the playing field for what can happen, and where. If one chooses to ignore a certain protocol, then it becomes impossible to communicate on that particular channel. No protocol, no connection.” The edge use cases must be considered carefully so that they are included within the protocol’s possibility landscape. The inherent complexity of this next identity layer of the Net is one of the reasons it has yet to successfully emerge.

Halley and I talk Identity – Podcast from BlogHer

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One of the highlights of BlogHer for me was my first podcasting experience with Halley Suitt. I was sitting around at a ‘podcasting’ station and she showed up and the John Furrier who runs PodTech was there and so we did a spontaneous recording… here is the result. Wow! listening I actually don’t mind my voice.

How do we make the internet a trusted place?
Is the net a more dangerous place for women?
Halley discusses her digital identity experiences – writing about sex on the net, and lingerie photos of her on the net.
I mention the founding of Virtual Rights to address this new era of personal representation online. I share what inspires me how we can use these tools to empower us as citizens.

Co-Evolutions of Knowledge Networks

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I listened to this podcast last night and was surprised to learn that national science foundation is funding the building of a really cool DataWeb. Enjoy…Noshir Contractor at MeshForum 2005
Dr. Contractor presents a multi-theoretical multilevel model of using technologies to understand knowledge and social network organization through the discussion of real-world examples. From the ‘Lovegety’ to Amazon purchase suggestions and beyond, Dr. Contractor outlines the concepts that form the basis of social and knowledge networks.
Those concepts are:

  1. the social network, “it’s not what you know, but who you know”;
  2. the cognitive-social network, “it’s not who you know, it’s who they you think you know”;
  3. the knowledge network, “it’s not who you know, it’s what they think you know”;
  4. the cognitive-knowledge network, “it’s not who you know, it’s what who you know knows.”

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NTEN-SF: EFF Keynote

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I had a really busy two weeks. It ended finally on Friday with the NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network) Conference on Emerging Technology. I got to hang with some of my favorite folks from the NonProfit Tech world but more on that later. One of the good things was we keynote talk from Kevin Bankston from the EFF.
He was less articulate then Daniel Solve about why the courts have ruled that information held by third parties are not protected under the 4th amendment. It is because the courts interpret a third party even the service provider of knowing your phone number (because they are providing you that service) as not private. In the digital age this third party status expands to so many many things.
He talked about the laws they have and are considering about e-mail. They basically mandate the service providers keep copies of everything that comes to your in-box and the records of where you travel on the net. He gave a great analogy about this. It is like the government is mandating the post office to photocopy every piece for mail you ever get and store it for 10 years in case some government agency needs to search it.

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Passel: identity. remixed.

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DizzyD presented on Passel and The Identity Gang is in the HOUSE! Johanes, Doc, Phil, Mary and Mary – wow three identity women.
He also didn’t really approach it right he didn’t get all the different systems and how they worked and we were all in the audience correcting him. It really highlighted the need for the workshop we are hosting in October.
Here is the summary:
How do I as user my identity on the web?
The ‘story that started it all’
Wife’s machine got Trojan. I had to change all passwords everywhere.
What is Identity?!
Identity is just another class of information we manage.
It’s a second-order problem. When I get on the net I get on it to do Identity Management other tasks.
What is Identity [Italicized] ?
Depends on the setting
Bottom line two fundamental types
third party vouch for and self asserted
His summary of the other stuff..
What are the options:
Passport
All others are not inherently evil.
everyone is throwing protocols against the wall and seeing which ones stick.
who do you trust to host you identity?
SAML
SAML/Liberty
trust relatinoship between two entities on your behalf
“asserting” used a lot in this world….and I will use it a lot

Standards are well documented and widely deployed. Lots of infrastructure required for trust relationships. Conditionals and trust relationships not viable from an open source stand point. Took a lot of time for a second order problem.
SXIP
Identity is locked into who the identity provider. You can change home sites. not locked in. Run on own machine. Powerful for users with centralized for user to move.
LID
Send information back and forth and urls based.
OpenID
No dynamic scripting needed. You have your identity URL tell via meta tag where identity server is. enter URL – blog URL. LiveJournal do you allow it to authenticate?

Can’t i-names do this?
He asserted wrongly that there was not reputation (global services launch will embed reputation in the messaging/contact system.
For Internet-scale Identity needs

  • Aggregate IDentity
  • Decentralized and open
  • Divers programming Language/environments
  • Interoperable implementations
  • Bootstrap off existing trust models

PASSEL
Gives you more control over data
Aggregates your identity via user-centric three-piece architechure
implemntations already started Perl, PHP, Java and C#
Pluggable trust models.
Generalized model for proving any DNS-based identifier
Trust Model

  • how you prove the signer
  • person x
  • Moving identity information proving that a
  • protocol how move around
  • plug in how you trust information

PIECES:
Agent (principle’s computer)

  • aggregates into portfolio
  • public private key and fingerprint
  • natively if not
  • Zip file on key – use on different locations

Signer (site that makes assertions)

  • signer issues token with for example 4 hour life span
  • agent must retrieve new token from dizzyd.com

Target (relying party)

  • how does the
  • retrieval of public key.

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R0mL..as I was saying

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Ok in the treasure trove of yet to be posted posts is this gem from OSCON. R0ml gave an amazing (part II) of his talk that he did not complete last year. He will likely give part three the conclusion next year. The audience will be eagerly anticipating it. Here is the summary as best I can (his words are in italics). I must preface this by saying that words in text form are a poor representation of this man’s work as he takes presentation very seriously as a form of performance art.
He began with … as I was saying
Semasiology is the science of the meanings or sense development of words; the explanation of the words.
I wonder if we can collectively do a Semasiology of Identity perhaps that is a topic we can invite R0ml to consider with us since Optaros is considering and ‘identity’ practice.
He returns to a quote from the princess Bride where the guy says Inconceivable ‘I do not think it means what you think it means’
Summarizes last year’s talkwhere he made the point that the source of open source was not ‘code’ but instead was the requirements.
PART II – Really it was all about the CODE

Programs must be written for poeple to read, and only incidentially for machines to execute.

APL progammling language by Kenneth Iverson it was ‘easy to read’ and designed for Notation an a Tool of Thought.

(check out what it really looks like – totally not ‘easy to read’)
Why read?
70-80% of all “software development is maintenance
70-80% of all maintenance is reading old code and understanding
49-64% of the cost of CODE
WEB originates from this work Literate Programming by Donald Knuth. It is a method of composing programs. He felt the time was ripe for significantly better documentation of program and saw them as Works of Literature. He was an essayist whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style.
With Literate Programming there are two steps
Tangle (create the code)
Weave (create the documentation)
Hence the aphorism: Given one Literate eyeball, most bugs are shallow.
This language and its associated programs have come to be known as the WEB system.

He said: I chose the name WEB partly becasue iftwas one of the fe three-letter words of the Engligh lanauge not applied to computers
We can also invite some other words to describe the programming process from this set of words.
SPIN (create requirements) …a ask in spining a yarn
Knit (create the test cases)

Fashion (generate the models)
We might wonder how good our spinning, knitting and fashioning are going in the identity space. Hopefully the IIW in October can help with all three.
Warning this next section has a lot of free association
Steven Roger Fischer wrote A History of Reading

How many people are computer literate?
The census bureau says there are 600,000 programmers in the US.
If you include other professions that also would read code as part of their job you reach about 1.9 million which is less then one percent. It is about 16 million people world wide which is 1/6th of one percent world wide.
Where does reading come from? All early reading involved simple code recognition very task oriented.

Sumarian writing developed
Enheduanna was the first poet in 2285 BC. and was the daughter of Kin Sargon.
Ada Byron – first programmer Countess of Lovelase is the daughter of a poet.

In Sumaria at the time this poem was written only 1% of population knows how to read in the Great City of UR.
Around 500BC.. Athenians 5% could read.
This was the Dark Ages 500 AD at it was asserted that what writing made presnet to reader pictures make present ot the illiterate.

That is the GUI…(Graphical USer interface)

Words were written down for Public Performance:

scripta manet verba volat

script remains verbal is volitle
writing is eternal, talk is ephemeral


This phrase did not mean this
To ‘read’ was to transmit, not to receive. Things written were written as memory aids.
To read was to speak…because of not for orators…
So this phrase really meant:

Writing reposes, speaking soars


Writing isn’t any good unless you read it out loud. Existance of the book meant that the speaker could be anybody.
GPL3 – GPL is a copyright.
Copyright protects against unauthorisze copying derivation, distribution or publicly performance.
What does it mean to publically perform software?
It means to ‘run the code’

The purpose of the code is to be performed.

GPL defines source code’s preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
Refrain
Voices of the Absent
The spanish theologian – Isidor of Seville (560-636 BC) – praised silent reading, too, for being without effort, reflecting on the which has been read rednering their in.

In 1999 St Isidore was named the patron saint of programmers
Why?
He wrote a treatise – Etymologiae (source) or Origines as sometimes called.
He compiled it – all existing knowledge and literature.

Authorship does not matter the collection of knowledge matters.

What happen next? In the early middle ages changes our understanding of authorship changed. Integrity of the Authors Source Code
Something changed meaning of word to read… it was now possible to read in silence…

789 Admonitio Generalis no standards improve aimed specifically at educaiton reading and writing.
Carolingian Minuscurle brought some standards in.
Alcuin of York 798-804
Words are separated use a blank space.
What 0 did for math the space di for reading.
Irish scribes created the fullstop, comma, semicolon
Standards emerged for heights (m) ascenders (b) decenders (g)
Reading went form public act to private act – reader is no longer shared the text with others.

Reading and writing was collaborative and became individual.
Reusable Software is collaborative.
will it become individual?
Readable software needs typography.
If you write scripts they will need maintenance.
If you write readable code they will soar.

Writing reposes, speaking soars
scripta manet verba volat

Programming is literature.
Reading is not performance.
Two gods of literature the reader and writer.
Rewriting of what the author has originally authored.
Moving away from respect to original author when writing became a silent and private act.
Intellectual Property is invented in 1251
So we flip back to authorship…

In antiquity we gave credit to original author because failure to respect honored ancestor.
Post renaissance -> more about legal requirement.
Couple hundred years 40-50% will read can read CODE.
When this happens will the collaborative nature dissipate?
Power of collaboration is essence of what it is about now but it may become a private act.
Symbolic manipulation skill.
Extent to writing skill – literary skill.
We have done this before.
Speaking venacular of that people are talking.
Semiotic agreement about core set of concepts.
Be liberal in what you understand.
Be strict in what in what you are trying to say.
Poetry is obfuscated.
Poetry is set in LINE.
The white space is significant.
Prose it is not.

Come to OSCON for Part III next year.

Find Use Share and Expand all Knowledge

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danah boyd talked briefly about this new initiative at BlogHer yesterday. FUSE is the name of the new initiative that Jeff Weiner from Yahoo outlined at SuperNova.
I had fun at BlogHer 🙂 I did my first podcast there with Halley (you can see the picture over on Marc’s site) It was about 10 min talking about identity in various forms. I wonder when Podtech will put it up?
Yahoo! who hosted the cocktail party and did demo’s of Yahoo 360. I got to talk with one of the guys from the company and he raised some issues about identity 2.0 that I had not thought about. The power to enforce the of the EULA (end user license agreement) for a company like Yahoo! is in large part tied to their right to ‘terminate’ identities when the principles behind them misbehave. It seems key to include them more of the folks working for ‘the big guys’ in our identity workshop discussions and perhaps particularly policy usability.
Talk about changing identity (if where you work is a part of ones identity) Dana now works for the Yahoo! Berkeley Research and resigned from Google.