I didn't know about rel="me"

"Supermarkets could be asked to take people's fingerprints as part of the government's identity card scheme." What. The. Fuck?

I've been the only Jack Mottram on the web for 14 years. Another one just popped up. And he's an illiterate halfwit with an Austin Powers quote on his Bebo page. (Why the fuck Google places a Bebo profile above results from newspapers and magazines, I do not know.)

Sunday Herald exclusive on data theft at Best Western Hotels. 8 million identities potentially stolen, including everyone who has stayed at a Best Western joint since 2007, plus future bookings. (God knows whether I'm among them - are all Best Western hotels branded as such?)

Distributed social networking project. Kind of hard to tell what they're up to/what they've done so far.

Slick, simplified version of OpenID.

No2ID are calling in their pledge.

Information Cards made easy.

A PHP script that lets you host your own OpenID identity. Doesn't look too fiddly to set up, either.

Wowsers.

"The popular mobile is meant to make you look popular in public, it beeps at regular intervals to pretend you've just received another text message." cf. Twitter

OpenID-powered site for establishing reputations, 'claiming' concepts and making social connections, with serious and frivolous uses.

"An autistic woman "speaks" her language, then ours."

An interesting was of graphically emphasising a user's identity when commenting on a weblog.

Excellent post on using OpenID.

Clever form-filling/OpenID Firefox add-on.

"MicroID is a new Identity layer to the web and Microformats that allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own pages and content hosted anywhere."

Great idea. (Kind of a more sophisticated ClaimID, I suppose.)

"... the prior existence of ethnic ID cards was one of the most important factors facilitating the speed and magnitude of the 100 days of mass killing in Rwanda."

"The major groups in Iraq are not distinguishable by physical traits, but they are by name. To avoid being killed, people are getting false identification cards."

"There's a rumor going around the Internet that Douglas Coupland collects meteorites. Every effort he's made to set the record straight has been ignored by his many fan sites. So he recently decided to purchase a few choice specimens."

Once again, the Yahoo! buyout of Flickr looks to be having a negative effect. I'm not too fussed about merging my Flickr and Y! identities myself, but can see why folk are.

"An OpenID identity is just a URL. You can have multiple identities in the same way you can have multiple URLs. All OpenID does is provide a way to prove that you own a URL (identity)."

There's no way Stewart Home is Belle, is there? I reckon she's Karen Eliot ;-)

A round up of the Belle De Jour identity saga. (Exhaustive to the point of being disturbing)