Dan Brickley

"Like the continuing cheapening of the word "terrorism," we are now cheapening the term "weapons of mass destruction."" -Bruce Schneier. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Well, we *did* find hand grenades in Iraq. I can see the logic here. - DeWitt Clinton

global ignorance is a weapon of mass destruction, exported to afghanistan and iraq, hundreds of thousands of casualties - Gregory Lent

"A couple of weeks ago the BBC hosted twenty-six people from seventeen organizations including eight OpenID Providers and eight OpenID Relying Parties (sites which accept OpenID logins) in New York City to kick off an OpenID Content Provider Advisory Committee. The goal of the session was to answer specific questions by the Content Provider community (media companies and national affinity groups) as well as to provide feedback to the OpenID Foundation, its member companies, and the wider community on the future direction of OpenID." -Brian Kissel - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Obvious omission of Microsoft. Passport must be working out, eh? - Matt Harwood

Microsoft is very engaged with OpenID and is active on the OpenID Foundation board. They just didn't happen to be at this particular meetup, which is why they didn't get mentioned in the article. - DeWitt Clinton

this version works with the jubler subtitle editor - Dan Brickley

FF = substance (...and 'noise' for the brain) - Mona N.

I'm kidding, of course. ;-) - Chris Baskind

Caution: Never open extremely moldy cheese in the kitchen. Do not sniff the moldy item. Wrap all moldy trimmings and moldy cheeses in plastic wrap and place in a covered trash can. - Dan Brickley

a really interesting, nuanced post from Larry on Obama's campaign over the last month or so. really, really thought provoking. (and as an aside, I think relevant in many other contexts than just this one.) - John Lilly via Bookmarklet

To the extent that the question is about what Mozilla can do to contribute more than it already does to the general social trend toward openness, I'd suggest that the best way to expand the reach of this style of decentralized social, industrial and technical organization is to do so in a decentralized manner. There are lots of groups of people, formal and informal, that are part of this mix. Everyone from Creative Commons, EFF, CDT, Berkman, to IETF, W3C, SFLC, FSF (these are just the ones that I've been involved with), to the huge range of open source software communities. That only scratches the surface. The common values across these organizations is clear (as are some of their differences) but they do tend to work in pretty different contexts. I particularly appreciate the fact that Mozilla seems to have a knack for 'doing' instead of just talking so wonder what concrete things could be done to build links across these organizations, beyond just talking about what we have in common. - Danny Weitzner

Danny, I agree about the decentralized nature. The idea of being "concrete" in doing things to build links makes good sense. I don't have an idea of what these things would be yet, but your statement seems just right. - Mitchell Baker

'There is kindness in this world. There is compassion and decency. In a universe of death and suffering, there are things that make existence worth our while. In the heart of each person there is a penchant to make one's environment a better place. There - Dan Brickley

This language has always fascinated me. There's a great wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.... Perhaps even more interesting than the lack of counting is the lack of defined kinship relationships: "The Pirahã culture has the simplest known kinship system of any human culture. A single word, baíxi (pronounced [màíʔì]), is used for both mother and father, and they appear not to keep track of relationships any more distant than biological siblings." - Nick Lothian

There is some speculation that the lack of the two concepts is related: there is a theory which (in my understanding) basically states that humans can't understand what they don't have words for. - Nick Lothian

Nick, you might be thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... (in stronger flavour...). - Dan Brickley

It's up -- all of the Google I/O sessions. Which were your favorites? - DeWitt Clinton

Not yet, but I was waiting for it to be out and this video told me is out. - Elias Torres

Best Practices for Spreading Your App without Ruining the User Experience is a win. :) I love this quote: "If you behave like a disease, people develop an immune system" Someone needs to tell that to the app devs on facebook. - Erica Baker

Those analysts repeatedly spouted patently false government propaganda without challenge. - Dan Brickley

"Bruce Schneier" - Dan Brickley

"Richard Cyganiak"'s d2rq slides - Dan Brickley

from xtech chat w/ gavin bell - Dan Brickley

Although the promise of Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web is yet to be fully realized, the years of thinking and research that have gone into it are starting to bear fruit in terms of solutions to practical problems that people face today. The strong col - Dan Brickley

@John Arthur: You wrote, “one of the tenants of Microformats is that the content shouldn’t be hidden, or at least [not] completely.” (#17) I agree with this, but ISO dates are only intended for machines, not humans, so I believe it sh - Dan Brickley

"I will kick your terrorist ass" - Dan Brickley

Interesting to compare with other parsers... - Dan Brickley

Am gonna transcribe this, since I'm barely audible in this recording. I think the words are interesting but ugh otherwise :) - Dan Brickley

Distributed_Web_of_Trust.pdf 2.31 MB - Dan Brickley