BurningbirdRecovered 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As you may, or may not, have noticed, I’ve been integrating various pieces of metadata into the site, primarily into each individual post. Eventually I’ll remove the ‘meta’ option for each page, and just provide a machine consumable RDF/XML option — the humanly readable components will show directly. Right now I’m creating a plugin in […]