Mr. Slippery- August 16, 2002 I always wish I could read Neuromancer for the first time again, because nothing before or since has given me the rush that it did. What I did come across, recently, was True Names: And The Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier. It's a combination of Vernor Vinge's True Names, which was published in 1981 and presaged Neuromancer, and a collection of mid-90's essays on crypto, identity, digital rights management, and related themes. ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/08/16.html#a385 Patterns of cooperation without vulnerability- August 9, 2002 Collaxa's Edwin Khodabakchian (whom I have interviewed -- small world -- for an InfoWorld story on web services orchestration) is writing a blog that's a nice example (along with Ray Ozzie's) of how a tech exec can use this medium to project a persona, clarify a mission, and float ideas that may provoke useful reactions. ...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/identityPrivacy/2002/08/09.html#a377 |