Friday, January 03, 2003

A (one of many) New Years Resolution: Do more in Less Time. 2:19:01 PM    comment []

Who, who, who, who and who. Andre loops back to everybody else in the DigID conversation, and also to a seminal document: his Three Tiers of Identity paper. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 1:51:21 AM    comment []

Eric Norlin has more about NEA, of course: ...what the internet gives us now is a blunt instrument for carving out definitions of ownership and control. What digital identity holds out as a promise is the possibility of refining and making more subtle those definitions......and if done right, it won't scare the shit out of people either....in fact, it will empower them to greater levels of commerce and innovation. Good stuff. He also points to more from Mitch on the same subject, as it applies to current lawmaking in the State of Washington. Mitch also says Doc's "OurIdentity" idea is good, but I'd suggest that the right phrase to describe T2 is "Negotiated and temporary (or temporal)." That's fine, but also nonmemorable. Remember, marketing is arson. If your idea isn't combustible, it won't catch. I'm not sure about ourdentity yet. In fact, I'm not sure about the whole Digital ID conversation, which seems to have set fire to a relatively small group of people (yes, it's a big fire, but still). Which is why I agree with what I said at DIDW a few months back: we need the killer app for DigID: an invention that mothers necessity. Without that, we're still using soggy matches. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 1:48:34 AM    comment []

Keep it Stupid, Simple. I just ran across what Glenn Fleishman wrote in Quality of Servitude last month: It's better to focus on having more bandwidth than more intelligent networks. That is, forget about the fascist task of deciding that certain network traffic is more important than other network traffic. Rather, spend your energy (telcos and chipmakers and network equipment makers) on simply increasing the pool. In a non-prioritized network, more bandwidth means that more different kinds of traffic have an equal chance to get through. Good stuff, with heavy leverage from Frankston, Reed and Isenberg, among others. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 1:44:37 AM    comment []

And they probably didn't sweat the porn, either. I just aced this geography test (and so will you). Unsurprisingly, most young American Adults couln't find India, and 29% couldn't find the Pacific Ocean. The significant finding: Americans who reported that they accessed the Internet within the last 30 days scored 65 percent higher than those who did not. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 1:42:46 AM    comment []