Author Archives: Drummond Reed

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About Drummond Reed

Internet entrepreneur in identity, personal data, and governance frameworks

Your Own Personal Piece of the Cloud

Posted on 1/17/2010 by Drummond Reed

There’s an excellent thread going on among the MyDex team about the accelerating shift towards cloud computing and what this means for the individual. I strongly recommended to them Nicolas Carr’s The Big Switch for a discussion of this very … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Portability, Personal Data Store, VRM | 1 Comment

The Age of Privacy is Over?

Posted on 1/10/2010 by Drummond Reed

According to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, yes. See the video with your own eyes and read the ReadWriteWeb analysis of the interview he did with TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington. Is the age of privacy really over, or does Mark Zuckerberg just … Continue reading →

Posted in Privacy, Social Web | 1 Comment

VRM Rising

Posted on 1/6/2010 by Drummond Reed

I recommend Doc’s new post that explains the essence of what’s behind VRM. It’s a big vision, his, but Doc has a way of framing the future that makes it look inevitable – all that remains is the question of … Continue reading →

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Will Norris on Identity and (Non-Recyclable) Identifiers

Posted on 1/5/2010 by Drummond Reed

I could spend this entire week doing nothing but reading and posting about good post-holiday reading of recent blog posts. My theory is simple: over the holiday break, people (well, most people – not me this year) have time to … Continue reading →

Posted in OpenID, Practical I-Names, XRI | Leave a comment

Personal Data Stores – The Time is Coming

Posted on 12/28/2009 by Drummond Reed

This entire fall has been intense with work, thus the paucity of posts here. The holidays brings a welcome respite and a chance to catch up with a few key mental threads. One of them is the growing awareness of … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Portability, Dataweb, Personal Data Store, R-Cards, Relationship cards, Social Web, VRM, XDI | 4 Comments

Bob Blakley Gets Privacy Right

Posted on 10/5/2009 by Drummond Reed

I don’t know why — maybe it’s just the fall weather — but the privacy temperature is changing. We’re in a period of global warming towards privacy as a key component of Internet identity infrastructure. Part of it is my … Continue reading →

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Sincerely, John Hughes

Posted on 8/8/2009 by Drummond Reed

Someday I’ll tell the rest of the story about why I’m posting the following link. But for right now, let me just recommend you read it. I was never particularly close to John Hughes movies — though I did like … Continue reading →

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The Permissioned Web: Open Does Not Mean Public Domain

Posted on 5/13/2009 by Drummond Reed

At the Glue Conference this week I’m enjoying a great set of speakers lined up by Eric Norlin on the topic of how everything in the networked universe gets glued together using Web 2.0 tools and beyond. (The talk Mitch … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: See It

Posted on 5/7/2009 by Drummond Reed

One advantage of having a 13-year old son is that you have an excuse to go see a summer blockbuster movie on the very first night it comes out. I never did that as a kid, which is one reason … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Movies | 1 Comment

Eric Norlin on Conferences Vs. Trade Shows

Posted on 4/29/2009 by Drummond Reed

Having just been to RSA, which is the essence of a trade show, and being about to go to Gluecon, which I’m hoping will be the essence of a conference, I find the distinction between conferences and trade shows that … Continue reading →

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Adding another Hat

Posted on 3/16/2009 by Drummond Reed

When I told a friend that I was “adding yet another hat” by taking on the Interim Executive Director role at the Information Card Foundation, he said I had so many hats it reminded him of this children’s book. I … Continue reading →

Posted in I-Cards, Information cards, R-Cards, Relationship cards | Tagged | 3 Comments

Few niggling UI shortcomings of the iPhone

Posted on 3/10/2009 by Drummond Reed

Yes, I am now among the ecstatic legions with an iPhone – if my Samsung had not managed to last so long I would have jumped long ago. And now I’m as happy as all those other souls. After 10 … Continue reading →

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Here comes the next Internet Identity Workshop

Posted on 3/9/2009 by Drummond Reed

Spring is around the corner and that means IIW. The next one is May 18-20 in the standard location: the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Early registration is particularly important this year – 75 registrations are needed by the … Continue reading →

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Paul Trevithick on Password Cards

Posted on 3/4/2009 by Drummond Reed

Paul’s done a post about his writeup of password cards on the Higgins wiki. IMHO this is  a long overdue idea for how an identity client (“selector” in information card terms) can overcome the chicken-and-egg adoption problem. Selectors are like … Continue reading →

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FollowFriday Microtagging with XRIs

Posted on 3/4/2009 by Drummond Reed

The Craig Burton is at it again. Putting together all kinds of cool memes. This time he’s seen how to splice XRI into the FollowFriday endorsement system for Twitter. He calls the concept “microtagging” – using XRIs in the tag … Continue reading →

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Sensemaking Series on Internet Identity

Posted on 2/28/2009 by Drummond Reed

If you need to understand Internet identity quickly and at a deeper level than you can glean from blog posts and trade journals, but don’t want to hire a dedicated consultant, Eugene Kim’s Blue Oxen Associates has a great answer: … Continue reading →

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Bob Blakley's Relationship Layer Paper Now Freely Available

Posted on 2/12/2009 by Drummond Reed

I made a long post about it when Bob first presented it at IIW and then the Burton Catalyst conference last June. Now anyone can get it here. See also Bob’s commentary on its evolution here. Highly recommended for understanding … Continue reading →

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Kynetx: Rules Rule

Posted on 2/9/2009 by Drummond Reed

More about the long quiet spell soon. First I must post about a trip I made last week to spend the day with Phil Windley, his partner Stephen Fulling, and the inimitable Craig Burton down in Salt Lake City. What … Continue reading →

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Eran's Status Report on Discovery

Posted on 12/5/2008 by Drummond Reed

Something else so good I just have to blog it: Eran Hammer-Lahav‘s Discovery Coordination Report on the new metadata-discovery list he set up. Eran’s turning into a one-man hub of all things discovery as he drives forward together with the … Continue reading →

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Bikeshedding

Posted on 12/5/2008 by Drummond Reed

I love this word — and it’s meaning — so much I just had to post this after David Recordon used it in an OpenID general list post and gave the following attribution. Should be part of every techie’s daily … Continue reading →

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