Earlier this month at Internet Identity Workshop 40, Doc Searls and I presented an update on ‘My Terms’, aka IEEE7012. The standard itself is due to publish later this year; but the work is now sufficiently cooked that we are able to discuss our contributions. We can also look toward…| Customer Commons
As you see, we’ve been at work. Thanks to Justin Byrd, of Machi-Systems, and his patient instruction of other Customer Commons folk, we have a modern site that’s far more ready than it was to handle the traffic that will surely come when IEEE P7012 gets implemented at scale, which is the plan. Stay tuned […]| Customer Commons
Abbreviation System for Terms: Human and Legal Implementations, Visualization of Implementation Human Readable Implementation [TBD] Legal Implementation Legal Language (Appendix) The choices that ordinary individuals make about disclosing their data are used to construct a contract between discloser and disclosee. The contract consists of some universal boilerplate, a few clauses…| Customer Commons
Customer Commons was designed to be for personal privacy terms what Creative Commons is for personal copyright licenses. So far we have one privacy term here, called NoStalking. It’s an agreement a person chooses when they want another party not to track them away from their site or service, but still allows ads to be […]| Customer Commons
Glenn Fleishman has a lucid and helpful introduction to Mastodon in TidBITS that opens with this: Cast your mind back to the first time you experienced joy and wonder on the Internet. Do you worry you’ll never be able to capture that sense again? If so, it’s worth wading gently into the world of Mastodon […]| Customer Commons
Poly is a game. Or will be. We’re working on it. It’s a multi-player game. As are markets. Although Poly does not need to be a game about business (though it could be), the idea is to explore how markets work when customers bring abilities to the market’s table that defaulted business practices prevent. […]| Customer Commons
It’s here, and it’s new. We’ll soon have an email address to which you can send questions. Stay tuned for that.| Customer Commons
On the commercial Internet today, “free market” has come to mean “your choice of captor.” And, as captors have grown, the “information highway” of 1995 has in 2021 become a collection of private lanes, each controlled by single companies. On this highway, those companies enjoy scale across many customers, while customers lack scale across many […]| Customer Commons
Note: this is an early work-in-progress. And yes, we are looking for help with it. Not just criticism (though the constructive kind is good). Thanks. What is the Intention Byway? The Intention Byway—or Byway for short—is a way to move messages of intent between customers and companies, buyers and sellers, demand and supply, anywhere in any […]| Customer Commons
To make a short story shorter, what I said in this 2018 TED talk was that the best place to save journalism and restore trust in a fractured world was in our own communities. I also said we needed new digital tools: ones that pull us together rather than push us apart. I didn’t suggest […]| Customer Commons