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Author Archives: Joe Andrieu
Time agrees… users are in control
This year’s Man of the Year from Time Magazine is You. All hail the power and relevance of the user centered revolution that started with Pong and continues into the future with VRM. Pong? Yes, Pong, that simple little game … Continue reading
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Incredible Inevitable Identity
Last week I attended the Internet Identity Workshop 2006b. It was amazing. Not only was it a source of much varied and in-depth information, the people and community were world-class, all engaged in an “unconference” format that was truly the … Continue reading
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Internet Identity -> Reputation Networks and more
Effective, distributed, and automated third-party Identity systems will touch and change just about everything on the Internet. (Tip of the hat to Kim Cameron for the proposal and work behind that link.) For the last few months I’ve been exploring … Continue reading
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Supreme Court & Global Warming 2
Following up on yesterday’s post, tThe NYT‘s coverage of the Supreme Court hearing on Global Warming continues: On one level, the argument was about the meaning of the Clean Air Act, which the Environmental Protection Agency maintains does not treat … Continue reading
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Supreme Court, the EPA, Dubya, and Climate Change
Climate change is a mess. Not just because of the environmental impact, but because of its politicization. We can’t even get the name right. Environmentalists want to call it Global Warming. Industrialists want to call it bogus. The facts are … Continue reading
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Bread experiment ok
Previously, I said I was going to try out a new bread recipe for Thanksgiving. Well, it turned out that I was stuck starting the mix in a corporate apartment with limited choices for measuring cups, and I had less … Continue reading
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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. It’s a US holiday, I know, but the sentiments are definitely international. It’s good to have a time of the year we take a moment to remind ourselves of the things we are thankful for. I, for … Continue reading
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VRM: Make a gesture, create a market.
What do you get when you turn proprietary data silos inside out? Users in control. Doc Searls has been advocating VRM for a while (here too). What’s nice about his thinking — in addition to the open source/open standards approach … Continue reading
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GoogleAdvice from Seth Godin
In a conversation about the potential market lock-in of Google at Abe Burmeister‘s blog, Dave Chiu introduced me to a great presentation Seth Godin made to Google early in 2006, explaining that it was marketing, and not technology, that made … Continue reading
Homemade bread for turkey day
Fellow Caltech alum Castor Fu turned me on to a great recipe for homemade bread that I hope to try out for Thanksgiving. Here’s the article that turned him on to it (unfortunately now behind NYT’s walled garden) … happy … Continue reading
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