http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog XML, identity, crafting, and other tangled musings Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:59:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Remember in The Fifth Element when Leeloo threatens to shoot Korben Dallas for stealing a kiss, saying "ecto gammat"? Turns out it means "never without my permission". A good rallying cry for personal data sharing in today's world! The Economist has a thoughtful article called The Data Deluge on the ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2010/02/28/the-economist-and-ecto-gammat/ Robin Wilton's post on Google Buzz hits the nail(s) right on the head(s). The benefits of social networking center on human-to-human connectedness and collaboration, but the entire "social networking" construct obscures the fact that it's really human-to-application-to-human. In revealing information that its users never authorized nor expected to be revealed, ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2010/02/17/digital-shadow-cruft/ Simon Phipps often feeds me tidbits -- intellectual rather than gustatory -- having to do with nutrition. Recently he recommended I watch a lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig of UCSF in August of last year, called Sugar: The Bitter Truth. This lecture is really better described as a call to action ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2010/02/07/low-hanging-fructose/ Experiences not to miss: Helping the Concordia group understand your needs for confidence in outsourced identity data and your business and technical drivers for authorization, to inform future harmonization work in these areas -- the surveys should take you only a few minutes Joining the User-Managed Access webinar on January 29 to ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2010/01/20/experiences-not-to-miss/ Everybody's talking about identity assurance these days, meaning, generically, the confidence a relying party needs to have in the identity information it's getting about someone so that it can manage its risk exposure. A lot of the conversation to date has revolved around NIST Special Publication 800-63 (newer draft version here) ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2009/12/31/how-to-rest-assured/ Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hau’oli Makahiki Hou! While it's true that Twitter has absorbed some of my blogging rays, I do have a post-of-substance in the works that I hope to share with you before the year is out. But I didn't want to let this occasion* pass without a thank-you ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2009/12/26/fifth-blogiversary/ (This is part 2 of "The science of feeling peckish", promised way back in April. Thanks for the encouragement/prodding in the original comments thread about finishing the series.) I hope you'll stick with me for this rather technically dense post. As always, I will gladly accept all error corrections and pointers ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2009/11/24/occams-lunchbox/ If you saw the ProtectServe status update from the Internet Identity Workshop in May, but haven't taken a look since then, you'll want to check out our progress on what has become User-Managed Access ("UMA", pronounced like the actress...). The proposition still centers on helping individuals gain better control of their ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2009/11/23/discovery-and-oauth-and-uma-oh-my/ It's frustrating to see "news" stories about diet and metabolism that get something right, sort of, but for really harmful reasons. Yes, popcorn is deliciously seductive. Yes, it's bad for you to eat a medium-sized popcorn/soda combo ("Movie Popcorn Has Shocking Calories, Fat"). But there's no actual evidence to suggest that ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2009/11/19/a-real-horrorshow/ Christian Scholz and his Data Portability Project pals have roped me into their Data Without Borders podcasts. On Friday, Christian and Trent Adams and Steve Greenberg and I had some fun relaunching the series by talking about the DPP Terms of Service and End-User License Agreement (TOS/EULA) task force. Steve was ... http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2009/10/19/both-a-data-borrower-and-a-data-lender-be/