You maintain a blog at, say, livejournal.com (but this can be anything) and you stay logged in there usually. You go to leave a comment at someblog.com (perhaps it's Movable Type, or Wordpress, or DeadJournal, ...) and you don't have an account there, s
OpenID is a lightweight, decentralized identity system that has been gaining prominence. I expect this upcoming year to be a big year for OpenID -- and not just because of the Google trend chart with the recent uptake in search query share.
Here we explore social action. By social action we mean organized activity that seeks to improve human welfare, deepen civic culture and develop group life and commitment to others. Such a definition entails looking at the cultivation of a just and caring
'Just doing it' - not waiting upon national governments and international organizations to take action - has led to a remarkable outpouring of initiatives around the global environmental crisis. We explore James Gustave Speth's vision of unscripted, volu
The Decentralized Information Group explores technical, institutional, and public policy questions necessary to advance the development of global, decentralized information environments. The Tabulator project is a generic Semantic Web data browser. Using
information theory and trillions of interconnected binary logic gates give the Internet far greater potential for enhancing social interactivity. They create a new high-bandwidth mode among or between communities in real, biological space, binding and ext
MoveOn.org and the Howard Dean campaign have pioneered new models for democratic, flexible, "network-centric" approaches, but many organizations stick resolutely to traditional "ego-centric" methods. There's a simmering tension between ego-centric thinkin
We need solutions that can help the many people whose terms and vocabulary are left out of the taxonomy... The simple idea that people’s actions model meaning better than a directory (even a flexible directory) is a critical step forward in thinking ab
Hyperlinking is the foundation of the web. As users add new content, and new sites, it is bound in to the structure of the web by other users discovering the content and linking to it. Much as synapses form in the brain, with associations becoming stronge
The emergence of P2P Inference Engines and domain-specific ontologies in Web 3.0 (aka Semantic Web) will present a major threat to the central “search” engine model. In Web 3.0 (aka Semantic Web) P2P Inference Engines running on millions of users’ P
Web architecture from 50,000 feet up... decentralization and tolerance are the life and breath of Internet...If an engine of the future combines a reasoning engine with a search engine...able to construct proofs in a certain number of cases of very real i