OpenID blossoming into something really, really interesting. Yummy.
(Just this summer, when I was talking with identity people about identity in open/principled services, the openID <-> social network thing was purely hypothetical. DiSo is only barely past hypothetical, but… still, very interesting.)
A former co-worker of mine writes about the Live Journal sale; in particular, she has raised concerns in the past about content censorship on LJ and the impact that has on LJ users as citizens. Worth noting (from the comments) that LJ is free software, but that that only partially protects anyone- my friend’s network [...]
From the Washington Post:
In fact, technology shouldn’t be such a laughing matter. As a nation, we wouldn’t tolerate such ignorance about any other area of policymaking. Would we be amused if it came out that Joe Biden, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wasn’t clear about the difference between Shiites and Sunnis or [...]
