Effective immediately I’m resigning from the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium’s board after nearly 14 months as Chairman. As many of you might have seen, we accomplished a lot in the last twelve months, written up in our Part I, II and III end of year summary newsletters (at our blog here, here and here). In […]
Who Stewards the Personal Data Question? Org Chart
30 November 2011 by
Note: This post was originally published at Napsterization.org/stories. Below is a diagram showing the non-profit organizations (note: no for-profits, conferences or governmental orgs were included) that are stewarding pieces of the Personal Data Ecosystem. I wanted to show how the orgs are relating to the problem of how to remake our digital lives, through more […]
Personal Goes Live
18 November 2011 by
Personal launched a couple of days ago, and the coverage has been terrific. As a Startup Circle member, PDEC wanted to share the news. Personal’s own post about their launch. Techcrunch’s post by Leena Rao Mashable The Economist’s blog Identity Woman’s post on Personal (NOTE: in full disclosure, Identity Woman is Kaliya Hamlin, PDEC’s Executive […]
Should an Actress be Suing IMDB Because She Doesn’t Want Her Age Posted?
14 November 2011 by
(This post is cross-posted at Napsterization.org/stories, my personal blog on disruptive technologies.) Brad McCarty of The Next Web thinks the IMDb: Age-publishing lawsuit is “a frivolous abuse” and should be dropped. Reading his piece, I can see that on first glance, it sounds silly. An actress anonymously sues the Amazon-owned IMDB folks because they won’t […]