Data control
Identity is the operating system
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Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Politics
SOPA and PIPA: how lawmakers are out to take my job
I joined both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union today. I also give regularly to the Open Rights Group in the UK. I urge you to do the same. SOPA and PIPA - the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act respectively (PDF links)
Politics
Occupy Facebook: innovation in the era of social protest
Wired reports that a group involved in the Occupy movement is working on its own decentralized social networking platform: “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a
Data control
The Facebook Timeline in the New York Times
I'm quoted in the New York Times article about the global release of the Facebook Timeline: Mr. Werdmuller, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., said that the experience of browsing through his social history on Facebook was emotionally evocative - not unlike unearthing an old yearbook or shoebox filled
Politics
Otherwise Occupied: it's hard to blog about app stores when police are beating people down the street
November was a hard blogging month for me. I managed two posts: a single embedded TEDx talk (albeit one by Kaliya, who I respect greatly), and one about Thanksgiving. I just didn't have it in me. You see, I don't love tech on its own; I
Web
Giving thanks
This year, I had my first ever American Thanksgiving with my whole nuclear family. We've celebrated it before in the States, but never quite managed to get the whole family round the table - and in doing so, I realized what a positive holiday it is. Being thankful
Data control
Identity: the contexts of the future
This TEDx talk by Kaliya is worth watching:
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Data control
Identity, contact management and federated social networks
Last week, Doc Searls reflected that everything being worked on at the Internet Identity Workshop is meaningful to CRM: It just occurred to me that everything being worked on at IIW is meaningful to CRM. I had been thinking that only the VRM stuff was meaningful, but I realize now
Data control
Identity progressives and identity conservatives
4chan's moot, aka Chris Poole, stood up at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday and painted a more complex picture of identity: "The portrait of identity online is often painted in black and white," Poole said. "Who you are online is who you are offline.
Web
The open web is dead. Get over it and do something.
Yesterday, I joined the Post-PC era by upgrading my iPad to iOS 5. Yes, the upgrade process wiped all of my applications and data, but once I'd put everything back together again, the result was a faster, more streamlined device that works much better than it did with
General
People in tech: some women who have influenced me
It's Ada Lovelace Day today; an opportunity to "share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today." There are so many technologists who I admire that happen to be women.