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Thursday, January 23, 2003
Hanging with Mom 
| | Hmm... maybe, in the Southern tradition, we'll make some snow cream tonight. |
RSS: opt-in Push
No, the other kind of King
| | In one of those coincidences, David Weinberger and I were exchanging email yesterday about the future of network communications. In it, David expressed real fear and lamented that we haven't seen our Dr. King, that we need one desperately. |
| | In fact, we need 10,000 Martin Luther Kings, 10,000 Andrew Jacksons, 10,000 Abraham Lincolns, 10,000 Teddy Roosevelts, 10,000 H.L. Menckens, 10,000 Ida Tarbells, 10,000 Bobby Kennedys, 10,000 Thomas Jeffersons, 10,000 Ben Franklins, 10,000 Walt Whitmans, 10,000 Edward R. Murrows. And they should all be arguing with one another and with the "mainstream" thought leaders vociferously. We need what Tocqueville called "birthpangs in progress" to keep the nation astir in order to create as many new movements and collaborations and opportunities as possible. |
| | With connections, we have the power to be the great country we are, but only if we break out of the bonds of waiting for information, waiting for an opportunity to talk, waiting for an opportunity to start a business, waiting for the next election to deal with our frustrations about what the government is doing and, then, only in the abstract. The United States was born in action and we need to return to that heritage NOW. |
Modentity
| | The term modentity came to me as I was thinking about the mobile uses of RM: relationship management. Add GPS to XMPP (especially as it applies to presence) and the mobile phone and/or wi-fi-extended Internet — so, for example, companies with which I have relationships know I'm nearby, and might be looking for a cup of coffee or a book store — and you've got your killer services (if not apps) waiting to happen. This to me is the real demand-side dream of DigID, and why Andre's Phase III is what Dave calls the implementation stage of Cluetrain. |
| | Now::: I just read the above to my sister, in whose living room I am sitting right now, moblogging away. As long as you can turn it off, she replied. We talked some more, and suddenly a helpful new understanding is falling into place. |
| | She's a retired Navy commander. And she just gave me a perfect naval analogy (from her early days in anti-submarine warfare) for the kind of relationship management customers will really want, once our standards and protocols support it. I'll take live notes while she talks: |
| | There are two kinds of sonar: active sonar and passive . Active sonar sends out a ping: a sound that reflects back, measuring distance. Passive sonar only listens. It doesn't ping. |
| | As customers most of us want to pass quietly through markets with the equivalent of passive sonar. We'll ping the vendors we voluntarily want contact with. |
| | What we DON'T want from Digital Identity is a system where vendors can constantly but silently follow us with passive sonar, or where they ping us when we don't want to be pinged. |
| | What we DO want from both identity and relationship management, as customers, is control over passive and active sonar on both sides of our relationships: who we're willing to have following us around, for example, and who we're not. Also who we're willing to follow as well. |
| | The key is to provide new levels of control on both sides, so both sides are completely protected from unwanted surveillance or unwelcome communications &151; and so all kinds of new and better relationships can flourish, so business gets to be more fun and less hassle for everybody. |
| | This prospect must scare the crap out of companies that are highly attached to such Tier 3 activities as market surveillance (excuse me, research), advertising, direct mail and various forms of nonrelationships with customers. |
| | Finally I'm beginning to get it. I think. Although the following is purposely cynical. The Digital ID initiative is a new form of the failed Push technology. |
| | There's no such thing as a federated Digital ID and there won't be. |
| | The various records about you are currently owned by others, not by you. That's because you don't own any data and never have. Data about buyers and employees is always owned by sellers and employers and never by buyers and employees. Since a company is no more than its data, no company will give it up to support the righteous quest for standards and interop and all the rest. Sure, they'll talk about it and go to seminars and purse their lips and seem to be interested, but, when it's time to fish or cut bait, they'll just donate a little chunk of historic data to the Digital Yellow Pages and keep right on hoarding their own, far richer, more current dossier on you |
| | NYTimes.com, January 21, 2016 |
| | Congress today passed the Carbon Life Form Digital Identity Act (CLFDIA) by an overwhelming vote, prohibiting any entity recording or archiving information of any kind about any carbon-based human persona. This is seen as a strategic win for President William Sterling who had made the legislation the centerpiece of his Sociolibertarian/Independent agenda, and will sign it using his digital signature at a ceremony at Davos. |
A picture is worth a thousand questions
Blogging in a winter wonderland
| | I't s snowing outside. About two inches so far. Very pretty. It's also 18° outside. In this part of North Carolina, this stops approximately everything. Nobody's out. Schools are closed. |
| | Worse, the speed on my sister's DSL is waay down. |
| | I did not bring shoes for this, either. If we go out, I'll be shoveling snow in my sneakers. |
| | Time to start shoveling.... |
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