On the fear factory

I intended to write some pithy comments about communication strategy in Australia’s federal election (voting is tomorrow) and how the spin from the current government has focused on fear, fear, and more fear. Fear the opposition Labor Party, fear the future economic tsunami, fear the immigrants, and fear the internet. Perhaps fear losing the election [...]

On Facebook security loophole

There is a newspaper article today about a Facebook security loophole warning. Well, I read the article and it was all very lame, unless of course you don’t have any common sense.
The “loophole” is nothing more than opening your profile up (or having a friend in your personal network open up the profile) to the [...]

On 6th Annual Identity Management Forum

Just a quick conference alert to the 6th Annual Identity Management Forum to be held in Sydney, 28-30 November 2007. And a disclaimer - I do not receive advertising fees for my conference alerts!

On identity and social networking

I was reading a great Wharton knowledge article by Jonah Berger and Chip Heath on identity, from a marketing perspective. The article, From cool to passe’: identity signaling and product domains, looked at “how consumers use products to signal membership in social groups, but swiftly abandon those same products when the original message is diluted as other [...]

On digital identity (2)

Matt Moore has a couple of recent blog posts on digital identity that pose some interesting thoughts.
The first, the technology of the secret, discusses secrets and what they represent, especially in terms of knowledge sharing and trust. Matt rightly says that we need to ”manage our identities in ever more complex ways. And they make our secrets [...]

On digital identity

I want to discuss the topic of digital identity in future posts. Let me introduce a couple of thoughts here.
In particular, I want to discuss “identity politics” in the Web 2.0 age. I don’t mean the traditional definition of identity politics. I define “identity politics” in the context of Web 2.0 in terms of the [...]