Business
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Fried Day
It’s all about making The Inention Economy happen. Dave Lockie: We Get to Decide What the A in AI Stands For. This follows The Intent Stack: A New Design Space for Human-AI Collaboration. Also dig Intent-Driven Commerce: What E-commerce Can Learn from AI Agents and DeFi. Dialing out Cumulus Media, one of the three big owners of commercial radio Continue reading
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Toes Day
Let the Games Continue I didn’t know what Figma was until I heard that Danila Poyarkov created an alternative called OpenPencil, explained here. This news came in a thread where I gave my wish list for old-app resurrection by Muggles using AI. Here it is: Raise MORE from the dead. MORE was the best writing tool Continue reading
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Status Go vs. Status Quo
MyTerms is Status Go toward markets based on full personal agency. Adtech is a $trillion Status Quo based on full agency for corporate entities alone and full subordination of the persons who depend on them: a one-sided power asymmetry manifest in every cookie notice. But, while it is easy to characterize MyTerms as a way Continue reading
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For Public Parks on the Internet
Eli Pariser is one of my heroes. There are many reasons, but the most operative one is for writing The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think in time for me to source it in The Intention Economy. The former came out in 2011 and the Continue reading
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Down and Running
I hit a storage crisis yesterday when I needed to copy a lot of fresh photos to my laptop’s hard drive, and it was clear that I would soon run out of room there. The laptop is a 16-inch 2023 M2 MacBook Pro with an 8TB hard drive—the most loaded and maxed-out computer I could Continue reading
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Where Are We?
While the Web isn’t a place, we know it as one. The language we use to describe it is concrete and structural: domains at locations, with sites that are built and have pages that are authored, and contents that are uploaded and downloaded. For a generation or more, we have searched through the Web’s vast Continue reading
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Because Pricing is Getting Too Personal
Surveillance pricing already has its own page in Wikipedia. It also has its own authority: Abbey Stemler, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics and Weimer Faculty Fellow in Business Law & Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business. And she’ll be speaking about her work a week from now: As you see, she’ll Continue reading
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Now We Begin
Yesterday, Customer Commons and MyData Global launched MyTerms at a London event correctly titled The Only Way to Get Real Privacy Online. (I explain only and real at that link.) MyTerms is the nickname for 7012-2025 – IEEE Standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms. Links: The text of the standard has a lot of Continue reading
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Flying Fckery
Go now to FlightAware’s MiseryMap. Cick on the blue Play button and watch The Great Storm of January 25-26 move across the land and cause massive delays at airports in its path. I have a 1.59 GB movie (.mov) of what you just saw. What should I do with it? Bonus image: Continue reading
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The Room Where It Will Happen
MyTerms is done and ready to begin. The launch is next Wednesday, in the room above at Imperial College London. Back in ’22, I called MyTerms (IEEE 7012) The Most Important Standard in Development Today. Now it’s finished and more important than ever. Join the launch. Times: 4 PM GMT11 AM EST8 AM PST You Continue reading
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We did it
Our Indiana Hoosiers Football team has won the National Championship. You can read about it everywhere. Probably hard to escape, because it’s the best story in sports right now, or perhaps ever: how the team that had lost a record number of games went undefeated this season, going 16-0, a feat not achieved since Yale Continue reading
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Securing the right to be let alone
In What destroyed ‘the right to be let alone’, Tiffany Jenkins in the Washington Post argues that demolition of personal privacy began in the postwar years and became normative in 1973. That was when PBS ran An American Family: a cinéma verité exposure of the Loud family in Santa Barbara, and the inaugural example of Continue reading
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How the Past Models the Future
This is a PageXray of Wired.com: Well, not really. I just want to give you a good idea of what PageXray does, which is far more than show you that a typical website stuffs your browser with cookies. For example, a PageXray shows all the unseen places to which information about you flows, thanks to Continue reading
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Thrustday
The human kind Fourteen years ago, agency had lost its original meaning, and was mostly applied to forms of business (real estate, advertising) and government bureaus (farm service, emergency management). That's why I devoted a chapter of The Intention Economy to what agency meant in the first place. Wrote about it again last year in Real Agency. Now Continue reading
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Toward a Proof of Concept for MyTerms
I’m thinking out loud here about how to get development rolling for MyTerms. Right now I see three pieces required for a proof of concept: When we first thought about this at ProjectVRM in the late ’00s, we saw a browser header that looked like this: The ⊂ and the ⊃ are for the personal Continue reading
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O’Hare can you see?
Always buy in the past In 1991, my bride bought us both lifetime memberships in United Airlines’ airport lounge, then called the Red Carpet Club. I forget the price, but it was cheap, considering. I’m guessing it was less than what one would pay now for just a year’s worth of club membership. Naturally (and Continue reading
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On Customer Captivity
Think about all the things that give you global scale online: Now think about what traps you: And now think about how much business the latter system prevents rather than enables. Such as having your own VRM tools for working with all the world’s CRM systems. Among other graces, VRM+CRM would give both customers and Continue reading
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Finally, Home Theater is Exactly That
You can now get a huge 4K TV for not much more than an ATM withdrawal. (Remember those? They gave you paper rectangles called “cash.”) You’ve already got Netflix, and probably four or five other subscription TV services, plus (or, increasingly, minus) cable. You can also get good-enough surround-sound speakers to go with the TV. Continue reading
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Shitting Us Not
Near-universal surveillance of our digital lives (and in some places our natural ones) has been with us for two decades or more. John Robb sees this expanding to surveillance by the state, with systems in the U.S. coming to resemble China’s: “As this system matures, the desire to profile, grade, and target people, on and Continue reading