Categories
Burningbird

Making do

As you may have noticed, I’ve re-designed my site. Again. Compared to the flames, the look is actually rather conservative, although I prefer to think of it as subtle. While working on a client’s site this week, I noticed that after staring at her pages for a time, my own site seemed, in comparison, very […]

Categories
Copyright

What we hear

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Lawrence Lessig posted a graphic of the spread of Creative Commons throughout the world. He used some interesting words to describe the colors: As of Thursday, the current spread of Creative Commons. The green are countries where the project has launched. The yellow are close. The red is yet to be liberated. (em. […]

Categories
Writing

Distinctiveness

Kathy Sierra, author of the popular “Head First” series from O’Reilly, asked a question: Is your book, manual, website remarkable (or recognizable) at every scale? There’s a game I used to play where you take a really small image from the painting of a famous artist and try to identify it. The trick is to see […]

Categories
Standards Technology

What do you want from digital identity

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I removed the last paragraph from my last posting. It added nothing to the discussion and was unnecessarily snarky. Still, doing so doesn’t impact on the message threaded throughout the post that *I’m not supportive of universal (read that ‘federated’) digital identities. I don’t believe there is a system that […]

Categories
Technology

You want we should what?

I’ve briefly mentioned Microsoft’s InfoCards, and chances are you may have heard snippets of it elsewhere. InfoCards is the company’s planned implementation of a digital identity infrastructure it terms “Identity Metasystem”. Johannes Ernst of LID fame provides a good, plain language description and scenario for the concept. Though much of the details are still unknown, we do […]