Craig Burton

I love the Daily Show. It is just about the only thing on TV that I like. The rerun for Friday night’s edition ran this morning around 1:00 am. I awoke to catch the dialogue between Jon and Samantha about the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate for VP. If you didn’t catch [...]

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Here is a new set of graphics done in Poser. There is no post work done in Photoshop yet.

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1007 blog posts ago, Kim Cameron rocked the Identity planet when he rolled out the Laws of Identity. He recently release the “short version” of these laws. Here they are:
People using computers should be in control of giving out information about themselves, just as they are in the physical world.
The minimum information needed for the [...]

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I am so honored when somebody like Phil Windley gives me a plug. I am anxious to see how things turned out with Evan from Identi.ca on the discussion about name federation. I will comment as soon as I hear it.

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Recently my good friend and fellow Utahn (pronounced Utah-uhn) Phil Windley declared the arrival of laconi.ca as a major breakthrough in microblogging technology. He is even toying with installing it himself at home. (Admittedly fears repercussions.)
The two main features of laconi.ca are, it is open source, and it has federated naming as an option. [...]

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Essay on the Nature of Software Infrastructure—the Run to Ubiquity
Look into the mirror of history to see the history of tomorrow. — .D. LuCxeed
Introduction
This essay briefly covers how Novell went about creating a new software category—software infrastructure. Software infrastructure was different than hardware, software or firmware. It was priced differently and was [...]

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I stumbled on this note from Eric Schmidt. I haven’t called the number yet. But I am going to. I will let you know how my experience goes. I think I will record it.

Google Help Center

A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality:
The Internet as we know it is facing a serious threat. [...]

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Few people understand what really happened with the advent of NetWare. Novell was the first company to figure out how to make money selling software infrastructure. Before Novell, soft infrastructure was included with some hardware, or sold with a service contract.
The dynamics this created that still exist and some of the lessons learned at in [...]

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