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Methods for Decreasing Dependency: Change Your Identity

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:24:18 GMT

Change your Identity. If you've been in a dependent position for a long time, chances are that dependency has become ingrained into your identity; your vision of yourself; your self-concept. You may even engage in labeling yourself, "I'm a dependent sort of person" (labeling being a cognitive bias you might want to look into correcting).

To the extent that you see yourself as a fundamentally dependent person, you might profitably spend some time exploring how this identity came to be, and whether it fits who you want to become. The effort you put into exploring the reasons and ways you have come to think of yourself as fundamentally dependent will pay off by increasing your awareness and insight, which will, in turn, help you recognize and correct your dependent beliefs and behaviors.

Attend to the Past.

Attend to the Present, and to the Future.

"The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step", as the saying goes.

Tags: psychology, mlf

William Tan's i-name page

Wed, 16 May 2007 02:21:08 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: xri.dready.org

An i-name is an abstract identifier that identifies an entity. That entity could be a person, company or organization, or even a service. Some even go as far as to suggest that you can use them to identify animals but as my colleague Ivor pointed out: “Cows don’t need i-names — you can simply assign inumbers to them.”

inumbers are not fictitious, by the way. You just don’t hear about them because we didn’t want our early adopters to freak out (as if these ‘=’, ‘@’ aren’t weird enough). When you register an i-name today, you’ll automatically be assigned an inumber.

What happens when you resolve an i-name is that an “XRDS document” is retrieved. In a fully resolved XRDS document, the list of services available is most immediately useful. It describes services such as the OpenID endpoint, your contact page, blog, Skype ID... pretty much anything you want to tell the world about.

Tags: i-name, identity, xrds, mlf

What's in an i-name?

Wed, 16 May 2007 01:59:51 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: dready.org

i-name =wil:

The equal sign (=) denotes that I’m an individual. There is one other type of i-name that is relevant to most people, an organization, represented by the commercial at sign (@). The company that I work for has an i-name @NeuStar.

The rest is just a name that you pick for yourself. Other than the fact that you can’t have spaces and punctuations other than period (.) and hyphen (-), pretty much anything goes.

By now, you’re probably burning with questions. The first of which I will answer “What can I do with an i-name?”

At the present, there are 3 services: contact, forwarding, and single sign-on.

The contact service is like a secretary who screens your caller, takes down the message and forward to you.

The forwarding service allows you to create links to web addresses that are either too complicated or may change in the future.

The single sign-on service allows you to use your i-name to log in to any web site or service that supports it.

Tags: identity, i-name, technology, mlf

XDI.ORG

Tue, 15 May 2007 23:54:17 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.xdi.org

XDI.ORG is an international non-profit public trust organization governing open public XRI and XDI infrastructure. XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) are open standards for digital identity addressing and trusted data sharing developed at OASIS, the leading XML e-business standards body. XRI and XDI infrastructure enables individuals and organizations to establish persistent, privacy-protected Internet identities and form long-term, trusted peer-to-peer data sharing relationships.

Tags: identity, trust, security, privacy, mlf

OpenPrivacy

Tue, 15 May 2007 23:51:19 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.openprivacy.org

The OpenPrivacy initiative is an Open Source collection of software frameworks, protocols and services providing a cryptographically secure and distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing user profile information.

In effect, OpenPrivacy is the first open platform that enables user control over personal data while simultaneously - and at user discretion - providing marketers with access to higher quality profile segments. The resulting marketplace for anonymous demographic profiles will create opportunities for a new breed of personalized services that provide people and businesses with timely and relevant information. Throughout the system, information may be shared with guaranteed personal privacy, creating at last a level playing field for the user, marketer and infomediaries.

Tags: identity, privacy, security, mlf

What's in an Iname?

Tue, 15 May 2007 23:45:30 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye
clipper's remarks: Answers to 7 questions about i-names.

Clip Source: wiki.idcommons.net

What's the Difference between Global and Community (Local) I-Names?

What Should Your I-Name Be?

How Many I-Names Should You Have?

What Happens as the Global I-Name Space Fills Up?

How Will I-Names Registries Scale?

Can Anyone Become an I-Name Registrar/Broker?

How Might I-Names Be Compromised?

What Happens if I-Name Infrastructure Folds?

How Do I-names Stop Spam?

What is the difference between your technology and Microsoft Passport?

Tags: identity, i-name, security, mlf

OpenID Resources

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:36:18 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye
clipper's remarks: Collection of links

Clip Source: blog.claimid.com

At ClaimID, we’re pretty enamored with OpenID. OpenID is going to make all of our lives easier, it makes our company more useful and valuable, and more and more smart companies are adopting the standard. That’s pretty exciting to us. I thought it might be useful to collect together some OpenID resources - so we can give our users a little roadmap to OpenID. Feel free to bookmark this to return at a later date (like, when OpenID takes over the world), and of course feel free to add your favorite OpenID resources to the comments below.

Tags: identity, identification, authentication, reference, mlf

WordPress OpenID Plugin

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:33:48 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: verselogic.net

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. Applications may use OpenID to assert ownership over a given identity url. The wpopenid plugin lets visitors to a Wordpress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID Identity.

Installation of the plugin is simple. Like any Wordpress plugin, decompress the contents of the archive into /wp-content/plugins/ and Activate the plugin via the administation plugin panel. This plugin does not require any modification of core files or templates.

Tags: wordpress, identity, identification, authentication, howto, reference, mlf

OpenID

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:25:04 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: openid.net

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.

OpenID starts with the concept that anyone can identify themselves on the Internet the same way websites do-with a URI (also called a URL or web address). Since URIs are at the very core of Web architecture, they provide a solid foundation for user-centric identity.

The first piece of the OpenID framework is authentication -- how you prove ownership of a URI. Today, websites require usernames and passwords to login, which means that many people use the same password everywhere. With OpenID Authentication (see specs), your username is your URI, and your password (or other credentials) stays safely stored on your OpenID Provider (which you can run yourself, or use a third-party identity provider).

Beyond Authentication, the OpenID framework provides the means for users to share other components of their digital identity.

Tags: identity, identification, authentication, reference, mlf

MicroID

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:21:46 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: microid.org

MicroID is a lightweight identity layer for the web, invented by Jeremie Miller (creator of Jabber). MicroID enables anyone to claim verifiable ownership over content hosted anywhere on the web (social networking sites, discussion forums, blogs, etc.). MicroID is not an authentication or single-sign-on service, just a straightforward method for identifying content ownership that complements existing technologies such as OpenID and microformats. The technology is radically simple and enables developers to build new and unique meta services with minimal effort. It's already being used by the likes of ClaimID, Last.fm, Ma.gnolia, Wikitravel, and Yedda. So join in the fun!

For more information about MicroID, check out the blog, read the spec, download example code or join the discussion list.

Tags: identity, identification, microid, mlf

What's Special About This Number?

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:49:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For more distinctive facts about numbers, see the website.

Clip Source: www.stetson.edu

0 is the additive identity.
1 is the multiplicative identity.
2 is the only even prime.
3 is the number of spatial dimensions we live in.
4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps.
5 is the number of Platonic solids.
6 is the smallest perfect number.
7 is the smallest number of faces of a regular polygon that is not constructible by straightedge and compass.
8 is the largest cube in the Fibonacci sequence.
9 is the maximum number of cubes that are needed to sum to any positive integer.
10 is the base of our number system.

Tags: mathematics, numbers, collection, reference