On the road again 
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Heading up to San Francisco (how about those Niners!). See ya there. |
Speaking of Ourdentity
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I still think we need language that describes identity in terms of property. People are not going to understand the extent of the Bush Administration's plundering of civil rights until we connect the abstract notion of identity in terms of property, as in "You don't have the right to take that away from me, Mr. President." |
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He's referring to "Theirdentity," which is my term for Tier 3 identities, which mostly consist of junk mail and other spam lists that make a bet that there's a one-in-something chance you're a fish that will rise to their bait. Property is a relevant issue with this one, because when real realationships develop between Tier 1 (Mydentity) demand and Tier 2 (Ourdentity) supply, the lack of relationships between Me and Them (Mydentity and Theirdentity) becomes fully exposed. And what gets most exposed is the lack of permission They (those T3 marketers) have about mailing people crap without permission. (Andre explains the three tiers here.) |
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Permission is the key. And that's all about property, no? |
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Here's the kicker: When you embed Creative Commons-type permissions in Mydentities, and Mydentities become ubiquitious (because they're based on open Net-native protocols, standards, file formats, APIs, etc. — and are carried with each of us on our smart credit cards, in our email signatures, in the business transactions that not only allow but welcome it), Tier 3 Theirdentities go away for the simple reason that they are not permitted and quickly become obsolete. |
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Bryan Field-Elliot has been telling us, eloquently, against the current of anti-DRM hostility that most of us feel around here (especially me), that Digital Identity necessarily involves DRM. With that in mind, I think the point I'm making here is that DIM — Digital Identity Management — is the customer-side, the demand-side, reciproal of DRM. It's what DRM needs to really work, and not just to enforce, which is its legacy purpose. And by "work" I mean create and sustain relationships. Some of those relationships will consist of choices NOT to get crap from people we don't know, and about products and services we don't care about. |
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...once the protocols are designed (with Liberty being good first steps), and once the software is widely deployed (in the usual ways such as server-side, as well as to-be-explored ways such as rich client-side), then we'll be left with a whole new social tug-of-war over which kinds of credentials are accepted where, and when. It will be a can of worms, tug of war, take your pick of metaphors, but the one thing it will no longer be, is a software or protocol problem. |
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Whatever else the outcome may be, the losers will be the pure Tier 3 players, starting with spammers. |
Going Bloglistic
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Red Meat Alert for your old school bloggers. Town Hall columnist Bruce Bartlett says blogs are "something that happened last year." He also writes that "most are purely personal and of no special interest . . . " |
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Still, Bartlett is pro-blog. His bottom line: |
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Blogs are here to stay, and their power will only grow. I think they are going to revolutionize politics and news gathering permanently. |
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