{"id":225,"date":"2003-01-29T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2003-01-29T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2003-01-29T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2003-01-29T15:35:37","slug":"foaf-and-digital-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"FOAF and Digital ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.it\/0100198\/2003\/01\/28.html#a617\">Marc Canter<\/a> picks up on Ben and Mena&#8217;s plans to include &#8220;friend of a friend&#8221; ID and relationship logic in Movable Type.<br \/>\nMarc connects this to an ongoing conversation about Digital ID. &#8220;Persistent digital ID&#8217;s is a foundation building block needed for social networking and what I call &#8216;the mesh&#8217;. (I got the link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theobviousblog.net\/blog\/archives\/000361.html#000361\">Euan Semple<\/a>)<br \/>\nThe problem with proposals for top-down digital ID is that they don&#8217;t do anything good for individuals &#8212; they give governments and businesses more power for intrusive marketing and surveillance.<br \/>\nThe problems with all the proposals for bottom-up digital ID is that they don&#8217;t give any immediate return to individuals. You fill out a form on your desktop computer, and the data is encrypted, and then what?  Bottom up movements have gotten no traction; there&#8217;s no incentive to the individual to play.<br \/>\nBlogspace is different.  People are already using weblogs to connect to their friends and build new connections with people with common interests.<br \/>\nA FOAF-based blogroll gizmo would automatically build a blogroll with data about the friends and aquaintances in your blogroll.  Somebody could provide hosted services for bloggers using simpler tools.<br \/>\nThis semantically rich information could be crawled, parsed, and mapped to reveal beautiful and useful patterns about the relationships between people and ideas.<br \/>\nThe application will spread across the network, because it meets a need that people already have &#8212; to keep track of each other&#8217;s blogs.<br \/>\nThereby creating the critical mass for other decentralized, user-driven id services.<br \/>\nWatch blogspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Canter picks up on Ben and Mena&#8217;s plans to include &#8220;friend of a friend&#8221; ID and relationship logic in Movable Type. Marc connects this to an ongoing conversation about Digital ID. &#8220;Persistent digital ID&#8217;s is a foundation building block needed for social networking and what I call &#8216;the mesh&#8217;. (I got the link from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOAF and Digital ID&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-3D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}