News Blinks & Pointers: June 1, AM ’05
- VOIP lift-off… great read from Om
- Everyday illustrations
- Cool stuff…
- James on Friedman…
- Mitigating blog overload…
- And, if you are looking for the Rugby, sign-up for Setanta Sports.
Entrust Blogs..
Entrust has turned-on two blogs today. (disclosure: Entrust is a client of The Lark Group).
One of these is especially interesting given the enormous amount of identity theft occuring in the market. Chris’ first blog touches on the decision by Bank of America to start deploying second factor authentication. While this is a good move, I’m surprised they aren’t looking at simpler, lower cost alternatives. Either way, this is a step in the right direction. I’d rather see Citibank deploy something like this that I can use than harrass me every week with calls in order to confirm transactions – which while protecting them, anoys the heck out of me. The other blog covers email compliance.
Watch for more from Entrust in the coming months.
Participatory Communications
Irving Wladawsky-Berger has a basic definition of open source (thanks to Ross for the link):
Now, when you collaborate with your colleagues, they have to be able to read and understand what you say, whether you use a natural language like English, or mathematical notation, or tables of numbers. Likewise, if the collaboration involves software, then you would expect to be able to read, modify and generally share the source code of the software on which you are jointly working. Thus, in my opinion, open source software is just a by-product of, or rather a necessary precondition for, collaborative innovation involving software. Nothing more, nothing less.
It’s much the same in Participatory Communications where software is replaced by language. As Ross points out, language lowers the barrier to participation. To which I would add technology as an enabler and precondition.
