Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, one of the most compelling and thought-provoking books I’ve read in a long time, was awarded Best Novel in the 2010 Hugo awards. It’s about gene hacking, corporate warfare, energy, and personal loyalty set in a not-too-distant future Bangkok. Highly recommended. This one is worth your time. Click for the full… [Read more…]
October 26, 2009
It’s Eve’s turn in the hot seat this week, as she takes us through the User Managed Access projects that she is working on. As if that wasn’t enough, we crack jokes that only make sense if you know bad 80s music and everyone picks on me for talking slowly. What more could you want… [Read more…]
October 25, 2009
Over on the always excellent hueniverse, Dirk Balfanz describes a workable way to use email addresses as OpenIDs. This has been something of a religious war over the last few years, and I come down firmly on the side that says that email addresses win because they are good enough and people already know how… [Read more…]
October 24, 2009
Data Without Borders is a weekly podcast about data portability, online identity, information authority, and all kinds of other cool stuff. It’s very interesting. The regulars this week are J. Trent Adams, Christian Scholz, and me. Elias has mysteriously gone missing (after muttering something about Las Vegas), but Eve Maler generously agreed to stop by… [Read more…]
January 28, 2009
In which I discuss the importance of intent to communication tools and annoy the people around me with a story about a dishwasher. One of the things that make modern air travel such a joy is the way we have to pretend to ignore the deeply personal, intimate conversations being shouted into cell phones around… [Read more…]
January 27, 2009
One of the projects I am involved with is the EULA and TOS working group of dataportability.org. This is some interesting stuff, and I’d like to take a minute to discuss what we’re trying to accomplish and why we think it’s important. If you were to attend one of our meetings (every other Wednesday at… [Read more…]
September 6, 2010
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