Craig Burton

 
Just read the first few paragraphs here, if you have been following identity at all, you will want to read more. I have no idea who this guy is, Jamie Lewis sent me the link. Jamie is just too busy to blog anymore. (yeah yeah, lazy butt.)
Hankering For A World Without “Identity” or “Federation”
Author’s note: [...]

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Ok. So a provider abstraction layer architecture isn’t exactly new. But it seems we have forgotten its significance. Almost all of the architectures coming out for the web are silos. From the Google App Engine to the Twitter. These services are only accessible from applications that write specifically to those services. Why is that? No [...]

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http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/10/CartoonCreativity

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I love this kind of minimalist stuff!

There are many things that the Meaning of Time looks like. Pop-up sprinkler, shelf bracket, vibrator. It is none of these. It is in fact a minimalist clock. A mechanism cut back to its barest essentials, it exists without hands or face.
What Bomi Kim’s conceptual plastic widget [...]

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I have updated the Burtonian Technology Matrix

Sorry about the tuna fish in the corner. Actually, all future sketches must have tuna fish.
Note that I have added the general flow of technologies in the matrix. I have also added two new squares, thus the matrix is no longer the obligatory 2X2 marketing matrix. The lower [...]

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Doc Searls new post on Infrastructure.
See my previous post.
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It turns out that hard infrastructure is softer than the name suggests. This is good, since I want to make the case that both LInux and the Net are forms of infrastructure no less legitimate than water, electricity, roads, sewers and waste collection. Understanding Infrastructure was [...]

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I am reading The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr. Great reading.

Here is a quick quote:
"Capitalizing on advances in the power of microprocessors and the capacity data storage systems, fledgling utilities are beginning to build massive and massively efficient information processing plants, and they’re using the broadband Internet, with its millions of miles of fiber-optic [...]

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A view from Scottsdale Road of the hotel we are at. Just Kidding! Love the photo though.

SonnyRadio.com :: Redneck Mansion :: Best Quality

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