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This is the moment Digital markets are undergoing dynamic structural change in how personal data relationships are managed, governed, and trusted. While the Internet and the Web promised a networked economy based on full personal agency, today we find ourselves trapped inside corporate silos while organisations of all kinds face rising compliance costs, minimized trust, and…

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 how the standard could be…

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…

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 that are selected from a…

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…

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.  …

It’s here, and it’s new. We’ll soon have an email address to which you can send questions. Stay tuned for that.

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…