Comments on: Davos07: On identity

By: Jeantaylor

Jeantaylor — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:04:38 +0000

I am doing research on blind people in the workplace.
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By: Jeantaylor

Jeantaylor — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:55:42 +0000

I am conducting research on blind people in the workplace.
If any of you know of stories of brave or newsworthy accomplishments or have stories to tell me regardingt the topic, please do reply.

By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Jeff Jarvis on Davos: Identity

Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Jeff Jarvis on Davos: Identity — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:52:12 +0000

[...] From Jeff’s post on Identity - created at Davos this year: * Every mogul wants a social network like Rupertâ€™s; media people kept begging for clues about how to build social webs about and around their stuff. One of the young moguls at Davos said that media properties are not meant to be social networks. Iâ€™ll disagree somewhat: The sad thing is that old media donâ€™t realize that if they had just opened up years ago, theyâ€™d have seen that they already had social networks. I tell magazine people that they have communities gathering around the good stuff they create or find that we all like; newspapers have local communities. But because they were closed castles that kept their communities outside, they didnâ€™t realize this. And so the people outside have gone to build their own social structures â€” which they clearly always wanted â€” now that they can. Too late for the big, old guys? Maybe. [...]

By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Day before the SuperBowl ‘07 links

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:40:22 +0000

[...] When Phil Windley was chatting about Social Networking Without a Safety Net, notice that he didn’t once challenge or worry about WHERE his identity info was stored. Nor does Phil challenge Jeff Jarvis’ correct assumptions of individuals who wish “to pull together our distributed identities and help us manage them and make the connections we want to make.” What Phil is correctly focused on is: “giving folks XRI granular level control over their ID domain” This goes back to the issue that Mary Hodder raised: “which ID broker do we support?” We’re (BBM) thinking of becoming an ID broker - as it makes sense that each of our clients would want to be issuing OpenID IDs - based upon THEIR domain. That’s where the true lock-in will form around. The domain of your ID. So why support i-names or MyOpenID - when you can support the ACLU, Sacramento Kings or your favorite book publisher? [...]

By: Salman FF

Salman FF — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:35:05 +0000

Great post.
re: opening up lots of new opportunities - I could not agree more. Do you know of any particular companies doing this?
btw - Sam Sethi (ex-Techcrunch UK) has had a few interesting posts on the subject from the openid perspective. See for example here

By: ABC Digital Futures » Blog Archive » On Identity

ABC Digital Futures » Blog Archive » On Identity — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:19:52 +0000

[...] Jeff Jarvis has been at the Davos World Economic Forum and says the question of ‘identity’ was one of the threads of discussion. [...]

By: Tom Evslin

Tom Evslin — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:31:22 +0000

The local groups which “need” web services already exist. You mention the groups around local newspapers which newspapers have declined to serve online; but, of course, there are many other very real groups which use the Internet for email but don’t use the web - yet - to communicate. Serving these groups (not forming them) is the next great Web opportunity. These newbies don’t need a life - let alone a Second Life - they already have one.

But, with broadband penetration over 50%, these groups can enhance what they already do by taking some of their interactivity online.

more on this thought at http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/01/the_newbies_are.html

By: The social media revolution (in 15 minutes)

The social media revolution (in 15 minutes) — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:19:39 +0000

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By: Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:05:07 +0000 Tipping the Media Scales By: David Armano A funny thing happened on the way to the World Economic Forum. OK, actually it didn’t happen until the end…. By: Seth Finkelstein Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:33:20 +0000 “Often, creation is its own reward” … but sometimes, it’s a $1.65 BILLION dollar buy-out. The awww, shucks line is a little bit faux in those circumstances. By: Poor Richard's Anorak Poor Richard's Anorak — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:30:52 +0000 BuzzMachine: In Davos Link: BuzzMachine. All this opens up lots of opportunities in technology. I said to a couple of my fellow participants at Davos â€” a media mogul, an internet entrepreneur â€” and I will say it in another post here that I think the real opportunity is … By: penny penny — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:10:57 +0000 Howard, bloggers have a place at the table, the MSM monopoly is over. This isn’t news. The best war reporting, insights into Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan, replete with the best photos, interviews and 24/7 slogging through the minutea have been embedded bloggers….. Michael Yon, Michael Tottem, Bill Roggio…. they there are out there. You use the phrase “citizen journalism”, sadly, I doubt you are even aware of where to find it. It’s out there, becoming increasingly more established, and, I can assure you that you won’t like it as a person that regurgitates all of the MSM agenda driven products. How stupid is it that you can glance at the news purveyor like the NYT’s, WaPo, Guardian, etc and write the damn article yourself as they are so it so hackneyed. By: Jeg udgiver - ergo er jeg « NewMedia Jeg udgiver - ergo er jeg « NewMedia — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:48:02 +0000 [...] Jeff Jarvis udtrykker det sÃ¥dan: “We are what we make.” [...] By: CaptiousNut CaptiousNut — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:09:06 +0000 Why do all of the problem creators go to Davos and pawn themselves off as problem solvers? John Kerry? Give me a break. The next YouTube is being inspired and created now by someone far removed from Davos - perhaps as far as Hurley was when he created his site. By: David David — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:41:42 +0000 With respect to Glyn’s post, Caterina Fake’s declaration that what Flickr users upload represents an “expression of their identity” is preposterous. It is instead, like Second Life or any similarly anonymous web venue, a manifestation of most users’ aspirations–how they would be in real life if they could accentuate what they like about themselves and eliminate what they don’t. I think that the reason why marketers are so enthralled by Second Life is that it offers them the opportunity to distill exactly what people seem to think they need to do to themselves to achieve “perfection.” This sort of knowledge could inform the development of new products and help companies more effectively package existing ones. By: Cooler Heads Cooler Heads — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:49:02 +0000 Jeff, what exactly is the purpose of Davos? I’m still trying to understand why I should care that moguls want a better network, and that they spend their shareholders dividends to spend a week hanging around Switzerland. I don’t know why the world is a better place because all those folks went to cocktail parties and talked about populism and networking and democracy. Doesn’t this have a sort of hollow, hypocritical core underneath the veneer of altruism? By: Glyn Glyn — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:48:52 +0000 While I defer to no-one in my admiration for flickr, they certainly never made up the word “interestingness”. If you rerer to the Oxford English dictionary - “Interestingness - the quality of being interesting” - you’ll see that it’s been around for more than 200 years as shown by this use by Adam Smith in 1759: “[The axe] the emblem of having been beheaded, which is engraved under those [heads]..sheds a real dignity and interestingness over their characters. ” Interesting how people’s avatars in Second Life are always better looking than the person in reality, but that’s understandable. I do think you’re being a little over critical of it, though. No doubt in another 200 years our great-grandchildren will all have migrated into Second Life, leaving the earth to recover without us. All of which has nothing to do with Davos, mildly sorry about that. By: Robert Feinman Robert Feinman — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:34:53 +0000 Speaking of social networks (and citizen journalism) there is something interesting going on with the Scooter Libby trial. In addition to the usual press types there are a few bloggers as well. Unlike newspaper reporters they have no need to limit the length of their postings and so are giving detailed reports on the testimony. This has allowed avid followers to parse the testimony. In the old days the two sides would have several people looking for weaknesses in the other side’s arguments, now there are hundreds. By the law of the intelligence of crowds they are finding interesting things. Today there are several discussions of discrepancies with Ari Fleischer’s testimony of yesterday including a follow up column by John Dickerson who Fleischer mentioned in his testimony. This probably would have slipped past in earlier days. With such close scrutiny of important trials (and even congressional hearings) happening more frequently it’s not surprising that the courts (especially the Supreme Court) are reluctant to allow cameras. Proof once again that a transparent government is always better for being so (at least from the point of the citizens).