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I dream

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

I dream of a theater company that changes the world. A movement, really. To draw out a new story from the next generation, to transform our ideas of what’s possible among people. A sustainable company at its heart? Not only do I dream it, I believe it’s possible. Will you explore this with me?

Simple webs of trust: a distributed approach to “safe” browsing

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

I was poking around this morning on a school district website, when I noticed a couple of links (on the “parents” page) to resources around online safety for kids. On a related page, there were a bunch of links to resources for the kids, and immediately this idea came to me.

What if a person could tell their browser, “yeah, I trust this website to give my kid links to pages he or she can safely visit”? What if you could also tell your browser, “I trust this page to tell me about other pages my kid can trust, too”? This quickly develops into a web-of-trust model, in which individual pages don’t vouch for themselves, but for each other. (more…)