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Do ordinary users care about data portability?

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13 Dec 2006

I was interviewed for an article by Steve O'Hear with Marc Canter (PeopleAggregator), Andrew Anker (Six Apart) and Tim Spalding (LibraryThing) about data ownership. This is something I care deeply about, and have written about before. It's excellent that the big web players are beginning to consider these issues.

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Chicago

Notable links: August 14, 2026

Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.

14 Aug 2026

Chicago's social network is a huge bet for news. I think it's the future.

Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.

13 Aug 2026
The 2026 John S. Knight Journalism Fellows - including me.

My next experiment

I'm spending a year at Stanford to explore community platforms in news.

01 Aug 2026
US Customs and Border Protection

Notable links: July 31, 2026

Change is fractal; data ownership can be collective.

31 Jul 2026
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