Clay Shirky recently wrote up some thoughts on algorithmic authority, well worth reading: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/a-speculative-post-on-the-idea-of-algorithmic-authority/. When you merge "publishers" and "readers" the People Formerly...
A couple of days ago, I tweeted "I like Twitter's new Like feature. Just not sure why they called it Retweet." Which is a bit snarky; @ev and the crew deserve more than 140 characters, because they've clearly put a lot of time and thought into this...
Discussing The Hammer Stack most of the day today. Resolving several issues. Will keep going until coffee runs out. XRD will bind all services together and rule them all. Notes here.
Addendum Nov 5:
One Protocol to rule them all, One Protocol to...
A few days ago, at the Real Time Web Summit, we had a session about Salmon, a protocol for re-aggregated distributed conversations around web content. I was hoping for some feedback and to generate some interest, and I was overwhelmed by the positive...
We're not quite there yet, but soon you'll be able to use any reasonable user identifier as an OpenID. Most importantly, email addresses. Dirk just wrote a great blog post explaining "Email Addresses as OpenIDs" which goes into the nitty gritty....
