Category Archives: conferencing

The gentle lawgiver

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Doc Searls

This is about credit where due, and unwanted by the credited. I speak here of Kim Cameron, a man whose modesty was immense because it had to be, given the size of his importance to us all. See, to the degree … Continue reading →

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Home is where one’s butt is

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Doc Searls

I don’t want to explain why we’re bivouac’d at a friend’s house in San Marino. What matters, for the purpose of this post, is that we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the Covid-19 pandemic. But hey, it’s a … Continue reading →

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From meat space to meet space

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Doc Searls

We’re 19 days away from our 30th Internet Identity Workshop, by far the best Open Space unconference I know. (Okay, I’m biased, since I’m one of its parents.) For the first time since 2006, it won’t be happening at the Computer … Continue reading →

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Zoom’s new privacy policy

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Doc Searls

Yesterday (March 29), Zoom updated its privacy policy with a major rewrite. The new language is far more clear than what it replaced, and which had caused the concerns I detailed in my previous three posts: Zoom needs to clean up … Continue reading →

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Helping Zoom

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Doc Searls

[This is the third of four posts. The last of those, Zoom’s new privacy policy, visits the company’s positive response to input such as mine here. So you might want to start with that post (because it’s the latest) and … Continue reading →

Posted in adtech, advertising, Business, conferencing, marketing, Pandemic, problems, Technology, VRM | 3 Comments

More on Zoom and privacy

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Doc Searls

[This is the second of four posts. The last of those, Zoom’s new privacy policy., visits the company’s positive response to input such as mine here. So you might want to start with that post (because it’s current) and look … Continue reading →

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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Doc Searls

[21 April 2020—Hundreds of people are arriving here from this tweet, which calls me a “Harvard researcher” and suggests that this post and the three that follow are about “the full list of the issues, exploits, oversights, and dubious choices … Continue reading →

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