As Grace Slick Once Said: Go Ask Alice

As Grace Slick Once Said: Go Ask Alice Back in 1965, well before GDPR, or before people in our world were discussing Alice and Bob, singer/songwriter Grace Slick (Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship) composed a song, White Rabbit. A refrain from that song might well be the theme for today’s post. Following up on […]

Connect.Me

The Incredible Internet Irony Machine strikes again. The stealth startup that’s been my singular focus since stepping down as Executive Director of Open Identity Exchange and the Information Card Foundation last fall, called Respect Network, took one…

The Personal Cloud, Take 3: Thomas Vander Wal’s Personal InfoCloud

When I first heard the term “personal cloud” from Mark Plakias at C3, I knew it sounded vaguely familiar, but it wasn’t until I started this series of blog posts that Kaliya Hamlin (Identitywoman) reminded me that Thomas Vander Wal named his blog…

The Personal Cloud, Take 2

There’s been a wonderful discussion of “personal cloud” on the VRM mailing list this week. So far feedback is running about 80% positive on the term. But if there’s one point on which everyone has consensus, it’s that our collective “inside…