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Elected Chair of the OpenID Foundation in the United States
At the OpenID Foundation in the United States’ 2011, 1st board meeting, which just concluded, I was elected Chair. Though I still have much to learn, I intend to do my very best ov…
Twitter Renga (collaborative linked verse)
At the after-party following a GLOCOM study session, we composed a Twitter renga, among other things. Links to the original tweets and such can be found around here ↓ http://twilog…
Japan Back on a Growth Trajectory? (At Purchasing Power Parity, lol)
For the beginning of the year, I have updated the chart I introduced last April. It looks as though Japan has moved beyond the Lehman shock and returned to a growth trajectory. Mea…
Happy New Year
This is the Year of the Rabbit. I hope to make it a year of leaping forward like a rabbit. May the coming year be a wonderful one for you all. =nat
A Merciless Society and the Number System: The Dangers of Record Matching in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (2)
Last time, I argued that combining the Internet with a universally and widely used number—a general-purpose identifier—system could put “everyone under Inspector Javert’s gaze” and…
Media Interviews Really Are Difficult
The other day, while talking with Professor Suzuki of Niigata University, we agreed that media interviews really are difficult. This was our reaction after seeing an article in the…
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