Thanks to Scott Kveton, of Vidoop, who stopped me at BarCampAustinIII, to talk about OpenID and other identity related matters.
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about identity online (although get me going with a few beer offline!). I think the only other recent discussions I’ve had around identity is on the Citizen Garden podcast in early January.
What’s important here is that identity, in general, is pretty complicated and it’s interesting, to me, what people are talking about regarding technical solutions. I don’t think complexity is the answer, either, though. I don’t think reputation and identity should be tightly bound, although, I do think my whuffie (which includes reputation) has a great deal to do with why my identity is important. But that’s a discussion for another day.
gravatar always seemed like a good way to propagate that kind of avatar change.
Cool!
I think you are probably right. Data portability raises a lot of questions that don’t have obvious answers.
you hit da sweetspot- “I am not the the same person” – within different properties. As for Avatars, chinposin has a great experiment on da ambiance of an avatar.