Along with many many other interesting things that I’ll omit here as off-topic, I heard a lot of good discussion at BAR Camp about microformats. Beyond their technical usefulness and practicality, microformats are interesting to me because so many of them seem to be centered around de-coupling personal data from application that might use that [...]
A bunch of recent technical books have gone through a “beta” process, either public or by invite. This is great for everyone, since it allows interested readers to comment and correct ahead of the first print publication, so the “first” print edition is really more like the second. There’s various ways in which people have [...]
In my previous posts on personal data, I’ve talked about users’ desires to “own” and control their data, the difference between anonymous preference data and PII, and the need to separate specific technologies like cookies from the real question: what is OK and what is not OK to do with personal data? Here I’d like [...]