Musing lazily about the Digital Divide
According to the International Telecommunications Union, and as referred to in Wikipedia, this was the state of the Global Digital Divide in 2010. Digital divides come in many forms: between continents, between countries, within countries; between age groups, between genders, between professions. There are even digital divides between companies and customers, particularly if the company’s...
Musing lazily about filter bubbles
Life is getting more and more delicious every day. Today I learnt, via my Facebook feed, that “Apple’s Siri thinks the Nokia Lumia 900 is the best smartphone ever” Okay, that got my attention. I read a little more, decided to look into some of the other posts, and found this: So someone...
The Internet of Things Gets Huge Boost
LikeScott Lemon and his new startup Wovyn is showing visionary thinking that will lead to what KuppingerCole calls The Life Management Platform (You can download the report for free here). Watch the video, note how...
Tsé Bitʼaʼí
That’s the Navajo name for what everybody else calls Shiprock. It’s a rock spire that rises out of the desert southeast of Four Corners in the far northwestern corner of New Mexico. Elevation at the peak is 7,177 feet, with a prominence of 1,583 feet. Technically, it’s what geologists call a monadnock, an inselberg, or...
Department of Corrections
One nice thing about blogging is that you get to correct what you write. Tonight I put up a long post that I had second, third, fourth and fifth and additional thoughts about, and finally decided to kill. I do that a lot, actually. Just not usually with stuff I’ve already put up. But I...
Unlocking Data Exchange: The Long Tail of Data
Much has been made of data lately. And with good reason. Data and the ability to exchange and process it are at the heart of modern society's productivity and prosperity. Data and algorithms are the engines that drive the economy in the...
Thought for food
I’m in the midst of writing a number of books, on a plethora of subjects. Labours of love. I haven’t quite decided the order in which I shall complete them, or for that matter when I shall complete them. For some it may even be an if rather than a when. I’ve yet to decide...
An ecosystem – in Prezi
For your interactive pleasure:
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Roadmap to building a digital economy ecosystem on Prezi
Digital City ["insert your city or region here"]
The Digital City ["insert your city or region here"] pilot project would create and maintain a series of “New Economy Apprenticeships” which would lead to a “digital economy ecosystem” in ["insert your city or region here"]. This pilot project would … Continue reading →
JSON Web Token (JWT) Specification Draft -09
Draft 09 of the JSON Web Token (JWT) specification has been published. It contains this change:
Changed “http://openid.net/specs/jwt/1.0″ to “urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:jwt” in preparation for OAuth WG draft.
This speci...
Take us to The Rivers
News rivers were a brilliant idea in the first place. Perhaps, now that at least one high-profile publisher has embraced them, the rest might follow. But first, some history, in the best chronological order I can muster — Sometime way back there, Dave Winer created rivers of news for the NY Times and the BBC...
