In a welcome escape from the Today Programme's endless, pointless, carping about David Blunkett's latest indiscretion, I listened to an interesting Gillmor Gang on the drive down this morning. The show was recorded towards the end of the Web 2.0 conference, and covered such topics as the release of Google's RSS reader. A lot of time was spent talking about Identity 2.0 and the AttentionTrust, one of which was the topic of our inaugural Talking with Talis podcast, and the second of which will be the focus of the conversation I'm recording with Ed Batista next week. The Gillmor Gang episode made me think again about some ideas I've had to explain the importance of Identity 2.0, and I really should devote some time to that. The way in which they segued from one topic to the other also reinforced my feeling that attention and identity are the two big nuts we need to crack in order to move to the next level. Exactly how they fit together practically remains a little unclear, though, and Gillmor's Gang didn't seem to have the answer either... yet.
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