Phil Wolff is strategy director of PDEC, the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a Small Data NGO. Wolff is a director of the DataPortability Project and co-author of the project's model Portability Policy. He's had management, technology, and marketing roles at Adecco SA, LSI Logic, Bechtel National, Wang Laboratories, Compaq Computer, the City of Long Beach, the State of California, and the U.S. Navy Supply Systems Command. On LinkedIn, ORCID 0000-0002-7815-4750, Quora top 250 of 2012. He holds the PDQ Bach Inauthentic Identity Fellowship at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Phil lives in Adams Point, Oakland, California.

Shiver Me Timbers. It’s An API fer talkin’ Like A Swashbuckling Pirate!

See on Scoop.it – Personal Data JournalLandlubbers, you better get your sea legs ready, international talk like a pirate day is fast approaching on Wednesday September 19th!  What started as a joke among a few friends in 2002 has grown into an international phenomenon.See on blog.programmableweb.com

Personal Data Journal #5: Fast Cars, Breaking Standards, and Life at the DataEdge

Our summer issue has more than one hundred pages of analysis, news, and actionable resources. Catch up on the personal data space.

What technologies do PDEC startups use? [Free Report]

PDEC publishes a report showing which technologies personal data ecosystem startups use. Considered are architecture, user identity and authentication, data models and types of personal data, access APIs, privacy and security methods, and interoperability scenarios.

xkcd: ContextBot

Thank you, xkcd. We giggle about creepy ideas, at first. Then we become angry in resistance or we resignedly accept the change. This happened with miniskirts and rock and roll. And with threats of nuclear winter. We’re still giggling about how vivid a portrait the cyberverse is painting. When will it shift it for you […]