Category Archives: Citizen Agency

Video of my talk: “Identity is the Platform”

I’ve posted the video that Brynn shot of my talk. Slides are available here.
Of course, it’s purely coincidental that I used Pownce to illustrate my story of the “death of a web app”, since it was relaunched yesterday at TypePad Motion — without any of the relationships that were lost when the service shut down. [...]

“From the Trenches: The Social Web Workshop” coming to Europe in September

Late this September I’ll be traveling with Brynn to speak at a conference in Helsinki called MindTrek. I’m looking forward to this trip for several reasons, and one of them is that I’ll be putting on an independent workshop called “FROM THE TRENCHES: THE SOCIAL WEB WORKSHOP”.
The workshop will start with a synthesis of several [...]

Responding to criticisms about OpenID: convenience, security and personal agency

Chris Dracket responded to one of my tweets the other day, saying that “OpenID should be dead… it’s way over-rated”. I’ve of course heard plenty of criticisms of OpenID, but hadn’t really heard that it was “overrated” (which implies that people have a higher opinion of OpenID than it merits).
Intrigued, I replied, asking him to [...]