Monthly Archives: February 2009

Future of White Boys’ Clubs Redux #fowaspeak

In September of 2006, I wrote a piece called The Future of White Boy Clubs taking to task Ryan Carson for putting together a speaker lineup for his Future of Web Apps conference made up entirely of white men (for the record, Tantek resents being lumped in as “white”; he’s says he’s Turkish). As a [...]

BBC Digital Planet podcast featuring OpenID

Update: The BBC has posted a write-up of the report called Easy login plans gather pace. I was interviewed by Gareth Mitchell last week about OpenID for the BBC’s Digital Planet podcast. Our conversation lasted about 10 minutes — of which only about two minutes survived (mirrored here as they currently do not keep an [...]

What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned

Larry (@lhalff) and I have been recording a podcast for the past year called Citizen Garden that covers various topics related to the web, technology, and social networking. Well, given Ma.gnolia’s recent catastrophe, we decided that episode 11 would dedicated to exactly what went down and why, and what lessons Larry has learned that others [...]