First and foremost, there must be a major immediate benefit for the user. Persistent online identity - the long-elusive holy grail of "single sign-on" - offers one such, both for the consumer-oriented and the civic-minded. But how do we get mass acceptance of such a new technology among the civic-minded when it's the consumer that such services are being built for? One path is to help the average user with managing the most valuable resource they have: their attention.

My friend Mitch Ratcliffe sent me an email today asking if I could help create some technology for the Dean campaign. There's a lot to do - a lot of great opportunities for coders looking to create effective community action. It's all volunteer for now.

Tasked with designing a simple identity framework for the Augmented Social Network, a good place to start is a shared basic vocabulary.

First step toward direct Emacs editing of blog entries

OK - so I finally installed MovableType (v 2.64) and I'm going to see if this format works for me.