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Web 3 - Whatever That Is!
To understand what I mean - you might want to check out this earlier post. Meanwhile, on my personal thoughts microblog, I have been collecting a series of links - you can find them here.
Meanwhile, I was thinking that it probably makes more sense to include them on this blog. Thus we have a new living post, starting with that list and expanding - as I find then - below.
Probably the most important blog that relates to this post is
Web3 Is Going Just Great
Added March 11th
Worldās āFirst NFT Vending Machineā Didnāt Work And Neither Did The NFTs
Original Links
Why Web3 matters - by John Henderson - The Idea Exchange
Line Goes Up ā The Problem With NFTs - YouTube
So ā¦ what the hell is Web3? With the Chernin Groupās Jarrod Dicker - Recode Media
The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Startups
The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content - by Li Jin
Web3's Instant Rush to Centralization
Matt Birchler summarizing Moxieās piece
Via Doc Searls ...
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āThe only way to solve this is by creating new systems that start by equipping customers with their own standardized ways to interact with any service function on the sellers' side, at scale. We actually have tools for that called phones and browsers, but we need to advance on both.ā
Two Posts - Many Coins
This post, by Dave Rosenthal caught my eye this morning. It's long, itās deep and is written with authority and knowledge.
Who is David Rosenthal? In his words
I worked with James Gosling on CMU's Andrew project in the early 80s. I was a DE with him at Sun later in the 80s working on window systems including X, and file systems. I quit to be employee #4 at Nvidia where Curtis Priem and I did the basic I/O architecture, then was an early employee at Vitria, the second company of founders of Tibco. Before I start talking about cryptocurrencies, I should stress that I hold no long or short positions in cryptocurrencies, their derivatives or related companies.
David Rosenthal
It obviously also caught Cory Doctorow's eyes, because he went on to write a post as well. To many Cory's will be more readable - I guess helped by him being a professional writer and Dave's original post actually being a summary of notes and slides he presented at Ā Stanford's EE380Ā Whether you read Daveās or Coryās - if not both, the conclusion is the same ...
Ā The Links
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/14/externalities/#dshrhttps://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html
Featured ImageĀ Copyright:Ā Copyright by MaxPixel
4PrivacyĀ is another interesting site found by the inimitableĀ Doc Searls.
Looks like they are launching via Kickstarter- as of writing;
13,052 backers pledged $604,985 to help bring this project to life.
A Hot New Watch
A hot new watch from IDZ … or is it?
They call it ‘The Identity Watch’. The web site reads more as a manifesto for privacy, data security and identity, I love it!
What Is The Watch?
- An Identifier - To allow you to identify with different services
- An Authenticator - To increase the value of your ZINDEX and the security of your ID
- A Health tracker - To allow you to track all your fitness data in the health
via Doc Searls
By the way - if you want one, even they say it’s expensive and the buy button takes you to Open Sea (according to their web site / he first and largest NFT Market Place) … get your crypto ready!
We Are Open - Again!
Itās a new year, and a spectacular new one at that. More of that to come - but good reasons for my extended absence.
As we reopen the doors, I have decided to offer up some shorter thought posts and links beyond the longer articles that I have put here in the past. So along with a new workflow that utilizes Drafts I am hoping that you will find more to read, more regularly - but not necessarily taking more time.
Might also be a good time to remind you that there is a newsletter available, that can get delivered to your inbox. Just like this blog and the podcast, it too has been in hiatus. Itās coming back - but not yet reached itās weekly cadence.
Onwards - and my thanks for your attention and support.
The first message of our new year. Letās hope 2022 brings great things.
My three words for the New Year;
āClearā
āCloseā and
āChoiceā
What are your three words?
My ‘three words’ for 2022 have been decided and the newsletter scheduled.
Less than a week to go before
āTransform | Transition | Transcendā
In my micro blog ābioā gets replaced with my three words for 2022!
Remember the āSemantic Webā?
Don't you get fed up with the alphabet soup of tech terms that people introduce into our daily conversation?
It gets worse ā¦they then go on to use terms that most people canāt understand to āexplainā what they are talking about!
And even when we do get simple language it still doesnāt get there ā¦ because we essentially use product descriptions and features and donāt describe the benefits to ordinary people.
Take Web 3.0 .. please!
If you read the interwebs you would think that a new religion came of age in 2021. Google Trends tells a different story.
So when you are next reading about Web 3.0, forget about Crypto, Algorithms, DIDs, Sovereign Identity, NFTs, Wallets, Coins, Blockchains - and all of the rest of it. Just know that IF we get Web 3.0 right ā¦ and it is far from clear we will - but if we do ā¦. then it is the start of finally realizing the value that everybody expected back when this web thing started.
I thought this was an interesting little doohickey that you might find an interesting explanation - though I have some issues with a few of them.
Behavioural Advertising for example. God I hope not. I wish it read 'Intent Casting' - but that's an idea that doesn't seem to have arrived in the mainstream.
And despite Zuckerberg's best attempts Blogs are not going away.
But more importantly, some of the thinking is just BAU!
One of the most important things I would add is that Web 1.0 was 'pipes', Web 2.0 is really all about platforms. Web 3.0 is all about protocols. That's one of the People First Tenets!
Photo by @iamjeremyenns - thankyou.
Scott Russell Sanders has a new book - “The Way of Imagination” which is a “dazzling, often heartbreaking, and ultimately healing meditation on the power of art to confront the existential threat that human greed and violence has foisted upon the earth.”
That and so much more is what he talks about with Stuart Robbins on The People First podcast .. a fascinating conversation - like being a fly on the wall.
podcast.peoplefirst.business/episodes/…
#poetry #poetrylovers
Just got notification Ć¢ĀĀ¦ if you have been part of the journey - thankyou. If you havenĆ¢ĀĀt, itĆ¢ĀĀs never too late Ć°ĀĀ„Ā³
store.peoplefirst.business/meet-john
The new book is charting in a number of countries including the USA and the UK … not to mention The Netherlands for some reason.
Short Interview With The Publisher can be found here.
The Kindle version is still free at time of writing.
The Seven Laws of Identity
Introduced in 2004 by Kim Cameron
Not exactly an 'update' from Doc Searls, but definitely a link with reading, remembering Kim who passed at the end of last year.
Thereās been an hiatus ā¦ but as we approach the end of the year ā¦ time to prep for 2022.
Welcome Back To The People First Newsletter.
