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Mobile in Mankato. Mobile carriers are waking up to the potential of offering fixed wireless services using license-free spectrum. A combination of fixed wireless, 3G, and even 2.5G service could be the foundation of a powerful, pervasive business plan. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
11:27:02 PM 
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Mydentity & Ourdentity vs. Theirdentity. The DigID polylog continues. Here are Eric, Eric again, Mitch and Britt. So far. It's getting real interesting now. Rather than take them all on, I'll give you some thougts that came to me after reading something Eric says in that first post above: I think there's a misunderstanding around a T2 identity here. A T2 identity is (for instance) the title that you have a job. So let's say you're: Doc Searls
Senior Editor, Linux Journal and along with that title (and the accompanying benefits of it), you were issued a corporate credit card. These identities were issued to you and are temporary and conditional -- ie, if you get fired, you no longer have those identities. Compare that with a T1 -- that's your own individual identity....and therein I think Mitch is absolutely right -- we own it. period. T3 is the aggregated "identity" that is gathered via the marketing complex....I'm Eric Norlin, 31, holder of an Amex card, likes snicker's bars and drives a 1990 Acura Integra. Who owns this identity? The corporations will tell you its not you......probably some gray area here.
I'm suggesting three new names for the three tiers, and an explanation for each: - Tier 1 is Mydentity. It's the central and sovereign self-made and self-actualized polyhedron of my very self. It's as exposed and anonymous as I want it to be. It is on the various facets of this core ID that I allow others, with my consent, to paint the next layer...
- Tier 2, which is Ourdentity. It doesn't belong to me alone, nor to those who confer it upon me. My title with Linux Journal exists by mutual agreement. So do the IDs on my credit and membership cards. Some say David Searls. Others say Doc Searls. Agreements about each with the conferring entities keep the whole thing sane. As for the ownership issue, it's a bit of a red herring. Look at it this way: who 'owns' a contract? Or a marriage? Or a friendship? We're talking about agreements and relationships here. Until we build out a Mydentity-based DigID system, we'll continue to content ourselves with multiple Ourdentities (library cards, credit cards, bank accounts, etc.) which are each central to a relationship with just one company or other entity (DMV, local public radio station, coffee shop, whatever), and generally on the terms provided by the other (conferring) party. So far there is nothing that allows me to manage that relationship from my end, for example to selectively share aspects of my identity and its preferences with parts of the world other than those with whom I have any one given relationship. Nor are there ways to assert myself as an actual or potential customer ("I've got a Jabber XML session here that says I'm present in your zip code, Starbucks, and ready for my usual double cappuchino when I get off the exit in about five minutes") and make it persist across multiple relationships and categories ("Hey, coffee and wine shops, I'll be in town for the next day with a laptop and a PDA that are wondering who's ready for my business."). What we have no is built for consumers, not customers. We need to change that.
- Tier 3 is Theirdentity. This is about educated guesswork by marketers who, while they may have my name, generally know little more than a few demographic facts about me (e.g. age and zip code) [~] just enough to risk sending me, and 5,000 others they think are just like me, a piece of junk mail that stands less than a 1-in-20 chance of snagging me. When we have relationships between Mydentities and companies interested in the rich possibilities of Ourdentities, Tier 3 Theirdentities start going away. And another implementation stage of Cluetrain is underway.
My thoughts at midnight, anyway. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
6:22:08 AM
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O'Reilly Network: In-Room Chat as a Social Tool. Clay Shirky. For us, the chat served as a kind of social whiteboard. In this note, I want to detail what worked and why, what the limitations and downsides of in-room chat were, and point out possible future avenues for exploration. [Tomalak's Realm]
6:21:26 AM
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Online spending busts records. Buoyed by an increase in the population of online shoppers and more liberal spending by online shopping veterans, e-commerce in the United States leaps nearly 40 percent. [CNET News.com]
6:20:08 AM
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NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b4. NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b4 has just one change, but it’s a change lots of people have asked for. You can now display dates (and creators and subjects) when available.
Here’s a screen shot that shows Date and Subject columns.
You turn on the feature via the General preferences panel.
Dates (and so on) are displayed only when available. Not all feeds have this extra info. But it seems like more and more feeds do. [inessential.com]
6:19:38 AM
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Understanding Weblogs : In this article, I'll show you how to build a simple weblog using Radio UserLand, then I'll spend some time explaining the fundamentals behind weblogging. (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
6:18:31 AM
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Now here's a movie sequel I'll go see.
Matrix sequels feature digital actors. "The sequel to The Matrix, due out in 2003, will feature numerous groundbreaking technical effects. Among these effects will be digital humans indistinguishable from real humans."Yes! I can hardly wait.... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
6:15:22 AM
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Fred Allen. "A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done." [Quotes of the Day]
6:12:45 AM
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© Copyright 2003 Paul W. Swansen.
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