In an article at SYSCON Media, Gorka Sadowski writes about SIEM technologies and specifically about the complexity of event correlation. Why Rule-Based Log Correlation Is Almost a Good Idea: The Future of SIEM He points out that there are some challenges with static rule-based correlation. But, he calls it "the engine for the first generation of [SIEM]". That sounds about right. What scares me is that the future solutions to which Sadowski alludes look even more complicated. So, there may be a trade off to get the perceived increase in value. I have an alternative solution that simplifies…
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Rethinking Context
joeandrieu.com15 May 2012 | 1:02 pmInsights from PII2012 The FTC Privacy Report makes it clear that context is the key to privacy. For example, notice and consent need not be presented and secured if the use is obvious from context: If you buy a book from Amazon, it’s clear they need an address to ship you the book. But sometimes the context isn’t clear to the average user, even when it is obvious to developers. My Mom believes she doesn’t share anything on Facebook because she mostly just comments on other people’s posts. Ilana Westerman’s work shows the same disconnect: many people just… -
Life Management Platforms
ProjectVRM15 May 2012 | 10:00 pmKuppinger Cole, an analyst firm headquartered in Germany, has been hip to VRM for a long time. They gave ProjectVRM an award (that’s it there on the right) at the EIC (European Identity Conference) in 2008, and have been following VRM developments closely ever since. A number of VRM developers were there again at this year’s EIC, where I gave a keynote titled “Free Customers: The New Platform”, and the topic was front and center. In fact VRM has always been about more than relating to vendors, which is another thing Kuppinger Cole has believed as well. It’s been… -
An AR treat
Doc Searls Weblog14 May 2012 | 9:40 amEnticed by Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald (aka @DutchCowboy) in this tweet, I fired up Layar (an AR — Augmented Reality — browser from the company by that name, which he co-founded), and aimed it at the cover of my new book. What followed is chronicled in this Flickr set. Start here, then follow the links at the end of each caption. It’s a fun way to see what linky stuff might be found with any image you can visit in the world. Right now its purposes are mostly commercial. But I’d love to see the technology applied to questions we might have in the much larger non-commercial world,… -
DRM and managing my own damn rights
Digital ID Coach4 May 2012 | 9:14 amToday, 4 May, is a Day Against DRM, digital rights management. DRM is a technology imposed on published materials to keep you locked into one specified device or one particular use. The idea is to make something scarce, limited, and controlled by the industry. This means I can only “use” something like a book or DVD or music under their rules. The problem is that my life isn’t arranged or prioritized under rules that promote an over-reaching industry. If I buy a book on my phone but later find that I want to read it on a tablet, I don’t personally want to buy a second…
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Life Management Platforms
15 May 2012 | 10:00 pmKuppinger Cole, an analyst firm headquartered in Germany, has been hip to VRM for a long time. They gave ProjectVRM an award (that’s it there on the right) at the EIC (European Identity Conference) in 2008, and have been following VRM developments closely ever since. A number of VRM developers were there again at this year’s EIC, where I gave a keynote titled “Free Customers: The New Platform”, and the topic was front and center. In fact VRM has always been about more than relating to vendors, which is another thing Kuppinger Cole has believed as well. It’s been… -
VRM at IIW
9 May 2012 | 10:29 amVRM was a hot topic at IIW last week, with at least one VRM or VRM-related breakout per session — and that was on top of the VRM workshop held at Ericsson on Monday, April 30, the day before IIW started. (Thanks to Nitin Shah and the Ericsson folks for making the time and space available, in a great facility.) Here’s a quick rundown from the #IIW14 wiki: Tuesday, May 1, Session 1 F: VRM Intro (Vendor Relation Management) Developments (T1F) Tuesday, May 1,Session 2 D: Find Out And Control You Digital Footprint (T2D) H: Building a 4th Party VRM Start-Up (T2H) Tuesday, May… -
Let’s fix the car rental business
15 Apr 2012 | 9:13 amLately Ron Lieber (@ronlieber), the Your Money editor and columnist for the New York Times, has been posting pieces that expose a dysfunction in the car rental marketplace — one that is punishing innovators that take the sides of customers. The story is still unfolding, which gives us the opportunity to visit and think through some VRM approaches to the problem. Ron’s first piece is a column titled “A Rate Sleuth Making Rental Car Companies Squirm,” on February 17, and his second is a follow-up column, “Swatting Down Start-Ups That Help Consumers,” on April 6. -
Sovereign-source vs. administrative identity
25 Mar 2012 | 9:19 pmYou know who you are. So does the IRS, the DMV, and every Website you’ve ever made up a login and a password for — so it could “know” you. But none of those entities really knows you. What they know is what the techies call a namespace. What they have isn’t your identity, but an identifier. What they call your identity is an administrative construction. It’s something that had to be made up so that bureaucracies and technical systems could do what they do. Who you are isn’t just how you appear in the namespaces of administrative entities. Who you are… -
Your actual wallet vs./+ Google’s and Apple’s
6 Mar 2012 | 4:35 pmNow comes news that Apple has been granted a patent for the iWallet. Here’s one image among many at that last link: Note the use of the term “rules.” Keep that word in mind. It is a Good Word. Now look at this diagram from Phil Windley‘s Event Channels post: Another term for personal event network is personal cloud. Phil visits this in An Operating System for Your Personal Cloud, where he says, “In contrast a personal event network is like an OS for your personal cloud. You can install apps to customize it for your purpose, it canstore and manage your personal…
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An AR treat
14 May 2012 | 9:40 amEnticed by Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald (aka @DutchCowboy) in this tweet, I fired up Layar (an AR — Augmented Reality — browser from the company by that name, which he co-founded), and aimed it at the cover of my new book. What followed is chronicled in this Flickr set. Start here, then follow the links at the end of each caption. It’s a fun way to see what linky stuff might be found with any image you can visit in the world. Right now its purposes are mostly commercial. But I’d love to see the technology applied to questions we might have in the much larger non-commercial world,… -
A way to see what you get
13 May 2012 | 3:35 pmAccording to The Cost of Reading Privacy Policies, a paper by Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor of Carnegie Mellon University, “national opportunity cost for just the time to read policies is on the order of $781 billion.” This is based on reading 1462 policies with a median length of 2518 words, taking about ten minutes per policies, adding up to 76 work days per year, or a total of 53.8 billion hours for the U.S. population reading those polcies. This number, observes Alexis Madrigal, senior editor of The Atlantic, exceeds the GDP of Florida. So, Joe Andrieu and… -
Tsé Bitʼaʼí
10 May 2012 | 6:33 amThat’s the Navajo name for what everybody else calls Shiprock. It’s a rock spire that rises out of the desert southeast of Four Corners in the far northwestern corner of New Mexico. Elevation at the peak is 7,177 feet, with a prominence of 1,583 feet. Technically, it’s what geologists call a monadnock, an inselberg, or a volcanic neck or plug. By whatever name, it’s what remains of a volcano that was active 27 million years ago, in the Oligocene epoch, one among many volcanic perforations of what later became the American southwest. Radiating in three directions from… -
Department of Corrections
9 May 2012 | 10:16 pmOne nice thing about blogging is that you get to correct what you write. Tonight I put up a long post that I had second, third, fourth and fifth and additional thoughts about, and finally decided to kill. I do that a lot, actually. Just not usually with stuff I’ve already put up. But I did it this time. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have another go at the same subject. Meanwhile I’ll grab some much-needed sleep. -
Take us to The Rivers
7 May 2012 | 10:37 pmNews rivers were a brilliant idea in the first place. Perhaps, now that at least one high-profile publisher has embraced them, the rest might follow. But first, some history, in the best chronological order I can muster — Sometime way back there, Dave Winer created rivers of news for the NY Times and the BBC (NYTimesriver.com and BBCriver.com). Being RSS-fed and in plain formatting, they loaded instantly, and were so Web 1.0+ compliant that they even looked great and loaded fast on phones (such as my Treo) that were not yet smart in the iOS/Android manner, or fed by 3+G data…
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DRM and managing my own damn rights
4 May 2012 | 9:14 amToday, 4 May, is a Day Against DRM, digital rights management. DRM is a technology imposed on published materials to keep you locked into one specified device or one particular use. The idea is to make something scarce, limited, and controlled by the industry. This means I can only “use” something like a book or DVD or music under their rules. The problem is that my life isn’t arranged or prioritized under rules that promote an over-reaching industry. If I buy a book on my phone but later find that I want to read it on a tablet, I don’t personally want to buy a second… -
IIW14: VRM/Intention Economy – Where does it start?
3 May 2012 | 12:31 pmThere are many offshoots from this question: with individuals (convenience, trust, ID protection) – Life context, poor people, people who work in office buildings, etc. Family CIOs. by geography by vertical sector (public and private, also membership) – Nordstrom, Trader Joe’s, customer service orgs, high-value items. Non-profit orgs, memberships, going “beyond donate” and engage, support. legal/technical/facilitators incentives (asprin or candy? Currencies – new things – personal RFPs, vs. savings – “data wombles”), Nudge (book)… -
IIW14: Customer Commons and Collaborating on Things
2 May 2012 | 5:31 pmSession called to explore the notion that we’re forming a customer and company ecosystem, and information shared about Customer Commons. PDEC‘s consensus definition: Interoperability is not about swapping massive amounts of data semantically unchanged from one provider to another, but to easily get authorized by a user to grab specific pieces of information on their behalf, from points of sources (often not PDE sources), process it and perform actions as desired by the user; e.g., providing input to get other services. Joy Anderson’s Structure Labs: relationships and assets… -
IIW14: Experian’s Data Wallet
2 May 2012 | 2:06 pmExperian has credit data on 220 million users in the US, including every debt that you have incurred, liens, bankruptcies, etc. Credit data can’t be used for marketing, per US law, but it appears they’re finding a way around this? They know with good accuracy (information gathered from cookies, data tracking, also they have data scientists) a lot about us, including if we have a cat or dog, lots of detail. Our speaker Anatoly is talking about offering a data wallet to access this data by consumers. MyID.com says what info is tracking people and lets them opt out. They want to… -
IIW14: Data, Carvoyant, and Getting to VRM
1 May 2012 | 2:47 pmCarvoyant is a new VRM-wannabe that deals with transactions having to do with automobiles. There’s a data port on your car that uses standardized codes–they provide a device to diagnose, inform, offer referrals to customers. Here’s the whiteboard: More »Related posts: IIW14: VRM update IIW14: Experian’s Data Wallet IIW XIII: VRM, Evented APIs, and Everything
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UnMoney Convergence Topics
23 Apr 2012 | 8:01 pmTomorrow is the UnMoney Convergence - an un-conference about all sorts of topics related to money, currency, land, value, reputation, identity. Here are the topics that people are hoping to discuss: Collaborative Consumption and Sharing new currencies How we can work together to make the movement for community currencies stronger and more synergistic. BACE Timebank- open source currency What are the best ways we can move from the current debt based, imperial economic system towards a life serving, peaceful, gift economy? where are the most inspiring, promising, transition currencies being… -
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7 Mar 2012 | 12:05 pmMarch 11th. TEDx New Wall St. re-imagining banking re-built for the Information Age in Silicon Valley on a New Wall Street, as described in the attached press release, and here http://.www.TEDxNewWallStreet.org April 24th. UnMoney Convergence Fosters dialogue and collaboration among the range of interesting emerging ideas around money and exchange systems and to explore connections with issues of land and property tenure. In addition to topics on alternatives to the current currency systems, we invite all who are looking at new ways to look at land tenancy and stewardship, hard currency… -
Speaking at RSA on a panel about NSTIC.
29 Feb 2012 | 3:53 pmKaliya "Identity Woman" Hamlin, Executive Director of the Personal Data Ecosystem Consoritum is speaking on a panel at RSA about NSTIC. It is moderated by Jeremy Grant the head of teh NSTIC Program Office and includes fellow panelists Michael Barrett from PayPal, Jim Dempsey from the Center for Democracy and Technology and Craig Spiezle fromt eh Online Trust Alliance. -
On being an accidental NSTIC Pilot Yenta
20 Feb 2012 | 8:52 pmThe first person who I heard calling herself a Yenta was Deborah Elizabeth Finn who I met via my participation in the Nonprofit Technology world and the NTEN community. She is "the Cyber Yenta" helping nonprofit folks figure out their technology needs and match making. Yenta is a Yiddish word for a woman who is doing mate matchmaking. This last few weeks I have felt like a "Cyber Yenta" when it comes to NSTIC (National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace) Pilots because many folks have come to me to share their idea for a Pilot. Given what I know from reading the NSTIC Pilot… -
Upcoming Travel and Events - March is busy!
6 Feb 2012 | 9:39 pmI have made a resolution for the new year to blog more about things I am thinking about and working on along with where I will be and where I have been. The big news from last week was the coming IPO of Facebook and the release of how the NSTIC Pilots will work [PDF]. They are going to grant 10 million dollars and the first deadline is March 7th. So this coming month is quiet until the 3rd week. Then there is the Personal Archiving conference and an event about a new reputation system. ID Collaboration Day is happening February 27th the Monday of RSA week. We are expecting a good group from a…
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Access Governance on Unstructured Data
10 May 2012 | 11:22 amGartner research VP Earl Perkins posted a few days ago on the intersection of data and applications within IAG (Identity and Access Governance). I've certainly seen the same issues and we've been working with customers on these challenges quite a bit over the past six months. In fact, I authored a paper on the topic in April which is available in the STEALTHbits resource library titled Access Governance on Unstructured Data. I hinted at the paper back in February and it was clear from the response I got that many are not willing to acknowledge a shift from the era of Identity Management to… -
Data Growth is Bringing Security and Ops Together
9 Apr 2012 | 3:58 pmThere was an interesting article posted last month in NetworkWorld by Jeff Vance applying the concept of hoarding to electronic data. My favorite quote (altered slightly) from the article is borrowed from Yogi Berra: Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.Vance was talking about SharePoint. To paraphrase one point: as SharePoint becomes the de facto content management system for an organization, it's performance is impacted by data growth and increased usage. Vance also points out that firms like IDC and Gartner are predicting huge growth in the amount of data being stored by… -
Rule-Based Log Correlation: An Alternative Approach
28 Feb 2012 | 10:48 amIn an article at SYSCON Media, Gorka Sadowski writes about SIEM technologies and specifically about the complexity of event correlation. Why Rule-Based Log Correlation Is Almost a Good Idea: The Future of SIEM He points out that there are some challenges with static rule-based correlation. But, he calls it "the engine for the first generation of [SIEM]". That sounds about right. What scares me is that the future solutions to which Sadowski alludes look even more complicated. So, there may be a trade off to get the perceived increase in value. I have an alternative solution that simplifies… -
Finding & Closing Open File Shares
14 Feb 2012 | 10:36 amMy team has been working on an advanced workflow for finding and closing down open file shares. I think we've really nailed it. At a few customer environments, we've scanned thousands of servers, performed the analysis to discover and prioritize high-risk file shares, and have the complete workflow to tighten the controls and/or shut them down as appropriate. If you have a need in this area, shoot me a note. I'd love to walk through it with you and see if we can help. -
Is the era of Identity Management behind us?
13 Feb 2012 | 2:16 pmFrom a forthcoming paper I'm working on: The era of identity management is behind us. It’s not that we don’t still need it, but there are plenty of mature solutions on the market to help organizations manage user accounts across systems. Over the past decade, we built the core technologies, added features and workflow, and built numerous useful solutions on top of the platforms. It has all led to this. We’re now in the age of Access Governance.What do you think? Am I overstating it? The point is simple. We've done a pretty good job figuring out how to help organizations centrally manage…
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Using Capsicum For Sandboxing
28 Apr 2012 | 12:07 pmFreeBSD 9.0, released in January 2012, has experimental Capsicum support in the kernel, disabled by default. In FreeBSD 10, Capsicum will be enabled by default. But unless code uses it, we get no benefit. So far, very little code uses Capsicum, mostly just experiments we did for our paper. I figured it was time to start changing that. Today, I’ll describe my first venture – sandboxing bzip2. I chose bzip2 partly because Ilya Bakulin had already done some of the work for me, but mostly because a common failure mode in modern software is mistakes made in complicated bit twiddling… -
Persian Pulled Lamb
20 Apr 2012 | 4:37 amI don’t usually link to existing recipes, but this was so good, I had to: http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/647703. We only let it marinade for one day, which seemed to work fine. Share This -
Salmon and Peas in a Saffron Cream Sauce
5 Apr 2012 | 1:42 pmAn impromptu and fast recipe that worked really well. saffron butter olive oil salt pepper mixed herbs salmon steak fillets frozen peas cream Put the saffron in a small amount of hot water. Get the butter and oil hot enough to bubble, add salt, pepper, mixed herbs. Shortly after, add the salmon, skin side down. Fry until the skin is crispy, then turn onto a side. Fry for a couple of minutes, turn again until all four sides are done. Throw in the frozen peas and mix with the fat. Add the saffron (and water, of course). Bring to the boil, then add cream. Bring to the boil again, season and… -
EFF Finally Notice 0day Market
3 Apr 2012 | 7:37 amSix years after I first blogged about it, the EFF have decided that selling 0days may not be so great. Maybe they should be reading my blog? Share This -
Certificate Transparency: Spec and Working Code
1 Mar 2012 | 10:29 amQuite a few people have said to me that Certificate Transparency (CT) sounds like a good idea, but they’d like to see a proper spec. Well, there’s been one of those for quite a while, you can find the latest version in the code repository, or for your viewing convenience, I just made an HTML version. Today, though, to go with that spec, I’m happy to announce working code for a subset of the protocol. This covers the trickiest part – a fully backwards compatible SSL handshake between servers and clients. The rest of the protocol will necessarily all be new code for…
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Of blue raincoats and polka dot bikinis
15 May 2012 | 5:27 pmAh the last time we saw you/you looked so much older Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat, 1971 It was an itsy-bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini That she wore for the first time today Brian Hyland, Itsy-Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, 1960 Two songs from my childhood, both immensely memorable. One a novelty song that charted its way to the top, the other a haunting, lilting melody. Guess which one I had to learn to dance to at the age of 14? [I'll have you know that dancing to Leonard Cohen is no… -
Musing lazily about the Digital Divide
12 May 2012 | 6:07 pmAccording to the International Telecommunications Union, and as referred to in Wikipedia, this was the state of the Global Digital Divide in 2010. Digital divides come in many forms: between continents, between countries, within countries; between age groups, between genders, between professions. There are even digital divides between companies and customers, particularly if the company’s inclined to imitate a dinosaur [In which case the company will suffer the same fate as the dinosaur]. When I worked in regulated industries, particularly in finance and telecoms, I had at least one… -
Musing lazily about filter bubbles
11 May 2012 | 6:14 pmLife is getting more and more delicious every day. Today I learnt, via my Facebook feed, that “Apple’s Siri thinks the Nokia Lumia 900 is the best smartphone ever” Okay, that got my attention. I read a little more, decided to look into some of the other posts, and found this: So someone from Apple must have cottoned on to what’s happening. And made some changes. [Incidentally, there is a YouTube video of the original unchanged version here.] Which made me wonder. Why did it even happen in the first place? How come Siri thought so? So I looked lazily into… -
Thought for food
9 May 2012 | 2:45 pmI’m in the midst of writing a number of books, on a plethora of subjects. Labours of love. I haven’t quite decided the order in which I shall complete them, or for that matter when I shall complete them. For some it may even be an if rather than a when. I’ve yet to decide quite how to publish them. My inclination is to go for a variation of the now-classic free digital download/$25 hardback/$150 limited edition. But I haven’t decided. As I said, the books are labours of love, I get immense enjoyment just tinkering with them. The one I am keenest to complete will… -
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7 May 2012 | 5:56 amI’ve been a fan of Facebook pretty much since its inception, as soon as they let dinosaurs like me in. Continued to be a fan as Facebook grew, count a number of people there amongst my friends. [And no, I do not own any stock there]. There’s lots about Facebook I like. When some people moved over to Google+, I did what most others did. Treated Google+ like a gym. Joined. Went there occasionally. And not much else. I’ve marvelled at how Facebook makes a misstep, learns from it, adjusts and adapts in superfast time. I’ve waxed lyrical about how enterprises could learn…
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Fashion: How Amazon Can Make It Work
14 May 2012 | 3:01 pmMy latest Bloomberg View column suggests some ways Amazon might overcome fashionista skepticism about its plans to move beyond its traditional apparel offerings into higher-end fashion. Here's the opening: When I caught Jeff Bezos's eye at the press -
$2.99 Sale on Extended to May 31
8 May 2012 | 12:27 pmThe first week's results are in, and the $2.99 e-book sale on The Substance of Style has been so successful that it's going to last until the end of the month (but no longer!). The publisher reports that we sold more than 900 copies in a week, compared -
Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Feel-Good Waste
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Pet Lovers for Obama: Truth Is Stranger than Satire
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One Week Only: Kindle Edition for $2.99
30 Apr 2012 | 11:49 pmOne of my pet peeves is the way book publishers appear to ignore price elasticity when they decide what to charge for e-books. (See my articles here and here.) For my Twitter feed, I've taken to combing Amazon's monthly list of heavily discounted Kindle
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Rethinking Context
15 May 2012 | 1:02 pmInsights from PII2012 The FTC Privacy Report makes it clear that context is the key to privacy. For example, notice and consent need not be presented and secured if the use is obvious from context: If you buy a book from Amazon, it’s clear they need an address to ship you the book. But sometimes the context isn’t clear to the average user, even when it is obvious to developers. My Mom believes she doesn’t share anything on Facebook because she mostly just comments on other people’s posts. Ilana Westerman’s work shows the same disconnect: many people just… -
It all starts with sharing…
2 May 2012 | 10:37 amFrom kindergarten through our professional life, sharing binds us together as friends, colleagues, and collaborators, so perhaps it should be no surprise that online sharing through services like Facebook, Twitter, and email shapes our online social life. Yet sharing online is anything but simple. The details of what happens with the information we share is often hidden behind long, complicated legal agreements that almost no one reads. If we’re lucky, they are explained in Terms of Service and Privacy Policy documents, sometimes buried out of view, other times forced on us like ransom… -
The World’s Simplest AutoTweeter (in node.js)
30 Jan 2012 | 3:04 pmLast month, I set up a quick little autotweeter using Node.js to help me with Repeal Day Santa Barbara. I wrote a short blurb about it before hand, here’s what actually shipped. (Many thanks to the guys at the Santa Barbara Hacker Space for inspiring and contributing to this project.) The plan was simple. Set up a free server at Amazon Web Services. Write a simple daemon that processes a queue of tweets, sending them to the RepealDaySB twitter account at just the right time. Write a bunch of tweets and schedule them. Run that daemon on the evening in question (December 5) AWS Setting up… -
Kindle files to my iPad (Gutenberg eBooks)
15 Jan 2012 | 4:19 pmHow do you get a book at Project Gutenberg into your iPad Kindle app? It’s easy. Go to Gutenberg on your iPad and download the “Kindle” .mobi file. It’ll automatically open in the Kindle app. Yay. Don’t worry about instructions for how to get a .mobi file to your iPad Kindle. It’s a bit of a chore. But as long as you have a URL for the .mobi file, just use the Safari browser to download it directly. One you open it, it will be in your Kindle bookshelf until you delete it. Works like a charm. -
Playing in the Treehouse
10 Nov 2011 | 4:35 pmFor the last few months, I’ve been helping a friend find a good way to learn HTML. She’s an experienced professional designer… in fact her website designs were winning awards as far back as 1994. But she finally realized that because she never learned the brick and mortar work underlying the web, she was hampered in building breakthrough designs. As the web moves more and more to interactive, real-time mash ups that is becoming even more true. Unfortunately, the vast majority of options we considered were either way too expensive (like returning to Art Center to take a traditional…
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New issues for the new year
1 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pmIt's been a while since the ideas bouncing around in my head were directly related to any of the topics in courses I was teaching. Coincidentally, that intersection is occurring in the coming (Spring 2012) semester. I am teaching at Austin Peay State University in the School of Technology & Public Management Criminal Justice - Homeland Security. Towards the end of the last semester, I learned of an opportunity to supplement my endeavors with technology for the students, and applied for supplemental funds to get quite a few iPads, iPods, and related accessories. Here's the summary:…
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Daily links 05/12/2012
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Daily links 05/11/2012
11 May 2012 | 7:32 amFirst-ever demonstration of autonomous bird-like robot perching on a human hand | Engineering at Illinois tags: robot human engineering flight systems complexity The Calyx Institute — Indiegogo tags: institute calyx telecomms privacy government internet Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. -
Daily links 05/08/2012
8 May 2012 | 7:32 amThe Future of the Book : Sam Harris quite interesting and insightful. apart from the Lanier veneration, of course. However, with the gimlet eyes of a new blogger, I detect ominous portents of change. First, I see that Hitch’s article has been featured on the Vanity Fair website for the better part of a week and has garnered only 813 Facebook likes and 75 Tweets. Many of my blog articles receive more engagement than this, some by nearly a factor of 10. No doubt this has something to do with the ratio of signal to noise: When readers come to a personal blog, they are more or less guaranteed… -
Daily links 05/04/2012
4 May 2012 | 7:32 amWikipedia founder to help in government’s research scheme | Science | The Guardian Finally! This would be wonderful. Almost like back in 2001 when you could find many academic papers online. tags: research wikipedia government open publishers academic Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook | Technology | guardian.co.uk yeah, penny’s dropping, at least for T B-L re cross-analysis and correlations between various data sets, never mind getting hold of them. tags: privacy google facebook data personal TimBerners-Lee threat internet Exploiting such data could… -
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3 May 2012 | 7:32 amCommercialization of TCP/IP – an account by Martin Leufray III | Vertical Sysadmin tags: tcp commercial networking internet telecomms Meat Glue – Boing Boing great. I like my steaks rare, but fortunately rarely order a filet mignon. tags: meat boingboing Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Should you learn to code?
16 May 2012 | 11:08 amI have to weigh in on this. You should learn enough about anything to find out if you love it. I had no idea I was good at writing software until, on a lark, I enrolled in a Computer Science class at Tulane University in 1975. So I'd say, looking back, that was a good thing. If it worked out for me, why not give it a shot. But programming is at one end of a spectrum. It's like mountain climbing or spelunking, not like bungee jumping or hiking in the Alps. Programming is hard. And it's definitely not for everyone. I think the reason well-intentioned programmers get irritated by the sudden rush… -
Quick idea for Quora
16 May 2012 | 10:51 amQuora just raised $50 million. Quora is a very nicely done piece of software. Almost everyone thinks so. But I also think they're too late. There are already plenty of corporate blogging silos for people to write into. And the demand for them never was that high. So I think it would be interesting, with all their money and nice software, if they tried a pivot. Here's the idea... 1. Position relative to wordpress.com. A simpler more modern, better-designed version. Updated. 2. If possible release the back-end as open source, so you can complete the picture. If not, start work on that, and make… -
Chrome is better, day 2
16 May 2012 | 10:23 amI'm now four days into using Chrome as my primary browser, after switching from Firefox. Top-line review: My work is better. Not just in the browser, everywhere. Having a strong competent tool in web browsing brings confidence to all my writing and programming work. I started a thread about this yesterday. A story. When I got angel funding for my first company, the lead investor arranged for the company to get me a car. I had been driving a rented Dodge Omni, month to month, a real piece of shit. I didn't have credit, or money for a down payment. So every month I scraped together the rent for… -
Run against the Republican Party
15 May 2012 | 11:59 amI saw Romney interviewed on Fox, and all the arguments about him being awkward and a flawed human being, to me, are unconvincing. To balance those, I look at what I know about the President. Honestly, measuring one man against another, it's a draw. The reason I'll almost certainly vote for Obama in the fall is that he is not a Republican. The thought of them controlling the government again, is a real motivator. I saw what they did in August with the debt ceiling. And I see it coming again and again. This is a party that's taken a very wrong turn. I think a United States run by Republicans is… -
Chrome is better
15 May 2012 | 10:34 amI've spend a couple of days working fulltime in Chrome, and it's improved my workflow.
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The Social Customer Manifesto
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Turning fans into advocates
9 May 2012 | 3:41 pmThere are some great conversations happening over at the Advanced Social Media Strategies for PR, Marketing and Corporate Communications event at Cisco today. In particular, wanted to give a shout out to our CEO Sean O’Driscoll, who is presenting today on the topic of Turning Fans into Advocates. Check out Sean’s deck, embedded below. Turn fans into advocates through influencer engagement View more presentations from Ant’s Eye View -
It’s no game…
19 Apr 2012 | 1:43 pmThis one should be a lot of fun. Sean O’Driscoll will be presenting with the folks over at Badgeville on the topic of engagement and gameification in a webinar on April 25th at 10:30 PT. (Register here.) The quick agenda: How to use the Journey to the Engaged Enterprise as a benchmark for your external and internal social engagement plans Critical milestones at each stage of the Journey, and common obstacles that can prevent you from reaching them Why the principles of Badgeville’s Behavior Platform are critical to driving the kind of successful, sustainable customer and… -
The Social Engagement Journey event, April 23
19 Apr 2012 | 12:29 pmREGISTER NOW Sean O’Driscoll, our fearless leader at Ant’s Eye View, is keynoting an event next Monday here in the Bay Area. Here’s the description: “Becoming a fully engaged enterprise in today’s social world isn’t about creating a “social media strategy.” It is a journey defined by stages of operational maturity, milestones, and ultimately, a destination. The successful journey requires practitioner experience, pragmatism – and perseverance. But the payoff is immense. The fully engaged enterprise discovers on this journey that customers again trust… -
The Hunger Peeps
8 Apr 2012 | 9:30 pmKatniss Everpeep volunteers as tribute. Katniss Everpeep startles the judges. Katniss Everpeep cuts down a Tracker Jacker nest. Katniss Everpeep destroys the supply pile. Katniss Everpeep avenges Rue. Katniss Everpeep buries Rue in flowers. Katniss Everpeep and Peepa are crowned victorious. -
No, you can’t control your own data, says the travel industry
7 Apr 2012 | 12:16 pmA big thanks to Jennifer Cobb for the link to this New York Times article entitled “Swatting Down Startups That Help Consumers.” The gist is that there are a raft of startups that act on the behalf of customers in interacting with big brands (These kinds of services can be thought of as “fourth party” services.) Some examples: Customer-benefitting booking engines for car rentals Airline milage program points aggregators (think Mint.com, but for points) Airline seat watchers that automatically rebook you to a better seat when one opens up A number of brands…
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Relationship Economy
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Social Chaos Means…..
16 May 2012 | 4:01 amEverything is in a state of flux. An old French proverb says “the more things change the more they remain the same”. Even when things seem to be in a chaotic state of change what remains the same, at least for some, is the ability to adapt. A Fast Company article titled This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New And Chaotic Frontier Of Business states: Despite recession, currency crises, and tremors of financial instability, the pace of disruption is roaring ahead. The frictionless spread of information and the expansion of personal, corporate, and global networks… -
The “All-You-Can-Eat” Business Model
13 May 2012 | 5:16 amThe proverbial “all-you-can-eat” business model works great for some products and not-so great for others. The opportunity, of course, is to be able to transform non-viable business methods into viable one’s using social media tools and data. In this article, we explore how the AYCE model can be improved. Netflix for the Sky The Netflix model for movies has been touted as one of the greatest business innovations in the modern era of technology – not because it is new, but because it works. Now, consider that the AYCE model has been applied to transportation, club membership, and… -
Aligning Strategy With “Social” Intent
11 May 2012 | 9:31 amNew market dynamics are emerging as social technology and the use of it proliferates. Making sense of the dynamics and the strategic implications is everyone’s goal. The goal is not an end rather a never-ending pursuit to learn, share and improve. Learning and sharing is how people and organization can gain clarity of purpose on how to continuously improve. The real value in all things social is the sharing of knowledge with clarity for others to use. Imagine if an audience was focused on sharing of knowledge with clarity. What would be the outcomes? The answer: never-ending improvement and… -
Changing How Markets Behave
10 May 2012 | 3:58 amThe web has changed how “markets” communicate. The change in communications has the potential of creating a new marketplace. A marketplace fueled by buyer intentions. The intent and dynamics of the marketplace have changed and as we begin a new era all organizations will be forced to make changes to their intents or lose the markets attention. The word intention implies performing an action for specific purpose in doing so, the end or goal aimed at, or intended to accomplish. Whether an action is successful or unsuccessful depends at least on whether the intended result was… -
The Social Plan Is Not To Plan
9 May 2012 | 10:48 amHow can you plan for change when you don’t know what will change? The only thing you can plan on is rapid learning. But learning about something new can be difficult for those who only know the old ways. The evolution of the web is accelerating with new tools, new discoveries and the subsequent market dynamics effected by these changes. As more and more conversations begin to impact business models, market relations and the supply and demand equations the more traditional mind sets try and fit these changes into the old box. Most executives are totally disconnected from the dynamics…
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Validation of Space
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An Update with a Side of Something New
25 Apr 2012 | 6:06 pmI guess it's time to update my blog after an absence of about *looks at imaginary watch* a month. Boo to me for not keeping up. I'm a little disappointed with myself but I'll cut myself some slack since I've been busy moving in with my sister and brother in law, job hunting, keeping up with appointments and of course the general soul searching and learning little by little about how to be alone (within the confines of family) and eventually move on to become a truly independent adult. I don't exactly know what the definition of being an adult is but maybe I'll know it once I find it. I… -
Always Changing
2 Apr 2012 | 1:39 amHere it is again: A new month, a new day, a new something yet again. I can't believe my last post was already half a month ago. I really was staying on it there for a while but that thing called life is a little distracting sometimes. It feels like so many things have happened since that last post but at the same time I feel like I've done nothing but twiddled my thumbs. Like I said, it is a new month but things are getting real and I'm getting nervous and getting scared. Reason being that it's already April and I have yet to secure a job. I'm scared of a lot of things right now. Change is… -
So This Is How It Is
15 Mar 2012 | 2:47 pmHere's the deal. I get sad, I get down, I don't like myself sometimes. There are times I feel worthless and useless and like a nuisance. From time to time those thoughts and feelings were and are debilitating and that is why I got help; that is why I go to therapy and why I take medication. This is also why many of my posts right now are on the more personal and painful side. Some of my posts make people sad. Sorry but right now I feel sad on many days as I work through it in therapy and my body adjusts to my medication. Some issues were planted from times in the past… -
Competition
14 Mar 2012 | 12:12 amI know I've written a little bit about these subjects before but I just feel better when I write so pardon me if I repeat myself. When night falls and I'm left alone things aren't so great. Yet it is not only the night, it is any time that I am left alone. I'm in a situation right now where every thing is changing. Clarity is not a close friend of mine as of now. I feel continuously confused and any joke, any off handed remark, any thing that reminds me of significant moments of the past have me choking back tears or more often that I'd like, have them spill over. I don't know what I… -
In Limbo specifically Purgatory
7 Mar 2012 | 8:54 pmRight now, in this very moment in time, I feel as if I am in Limbo. Of course not growing up Catholic I felt I needed to do a little research on Limbo. Over the years I have done the same research but it's tough to keep up with all those little details of a religion that is roughly 2,000 years old. Apparently there are four sections of Limbo with Purgatory being one of them. Since I didn't fit into the other three categories (hey I already did my research now you do yours), Purgatory it is. And in a convenient coincidence it fits perfectly with where I currently reside. I am caught in between…
