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Books: j.mp/ntnecn, @Cluetrain. Blog: doc.searls.com. Involvements: @VRM @CustomerCommons @TWiT (FLOSS) @Reality2cast @ucsbcits @BKCharvard @Ostrom_Workshop
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Internet Identity Workshop IIWXLI #41 2025B

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By Phil Windley, Kaliya Young, Doc Searls
| eventbrite.com
By Phil Windley, Kaliya Young, & Doc Searls The Internet Identity Workshop #IIW has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005.
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On Moral Politics

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By Doc Searls
| Medium
A Camaldolese monk once said to me (in an appointment for which he kindly broke his silence), “You taking scripture literally? Jesus spoke in paradox. He used metaphor, simile, irony, contradiction.” The monk’s thrust with that argument was toward his life’s work: probing “the mystery” that “passes all understanding” and can only be contemplated. Hence the monastic life. But on his way to that point, he unpacked some contradictory moral systems within which Jesus acted and spoke.
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The Cluetrain Will Run from Customers to Companies

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By Doc Searls
| projectvrm.org
For the good of both. Customers need privacy, respect, and the ability to provide good and helpful information to the companies they deal with. The good clues customers bring can include far more than what companies get today from their CRM systems, and from surveillance of customer activities. For example, market intelligence that flows both ways can happen on a massive scale. But only if customers set the terms. Now they can, using a new standard from the IEEE called P7012, aka MyTerms.
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