James Farmer reads an old article on First Monday and from it finds this: "the software and systems we choose for our communications carry with them, in subtle ways, the values we care to achieve as a society." I think this is true, which is why I attach so much importance to the choice between, say, a federated search network and a harvester based serach network. And I also agree with this, that people should have "a persistent identity as they move between different Internet communities, and to have personal control over that identity." I think this is coming, but it's hard. It's too tempting to require a site-based login.
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