Join Privacy and Open Source advocates, Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman, as they navigate the new digital world, covering topics related to digital privacy, cybersecurity, digital identity, as well as Linux and open source and other current issues. In a virtual world Reality 2.0 unfolds Minds are expanded -ChatGPT
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Episode 146: AI and The Future of Identity
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Golda Velez about the state of AI, how it relates to identity, ethics, and where this all goes from here. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Golda Velez. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
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Episode 145: Authenticating Content With Cryptography
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about a proposal for authenticating content with cryptographic signing, and saving the internet. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it. — LLMs break the internet. The going rate f…
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to prolific tech author, Kyle Rankin, about how he recently self-published his latest book, and how that differs from his many experiences with traditional publishers. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Kyle Rankin - Books and Publications Spot…
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss an open letter to pause AI development. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society' | Reuters — Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence e…
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers about Shawn's head's appearance at the recent SCaLE conference and 3D printing, all while having a little too much fun. Hit play if you always wondered about our Myers-Briggs types. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Supp…
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Episode 141: User Sovereignty and Authenticity in Commerce
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls hear Dave Huseby's new ideas about identity verification and data authenticity in commerce. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Dave Huseby. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Cryptid Technologies — Necessary Security at Unprecedented Scale We offer flexible APIs for building zero-knowledge proof …
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Ezequiel Lanza about AI-based search. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Ezequiel Lanza. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Perplexity AI: Ask Anything Microsoft’s ChatGPT-Powered Bing Makes Search Interesting Again - The New York Times — Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft …
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Episode 139: Permission Slip, a Consumer Reports Privacy App
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Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk to Don Marti about Permission Slip, the new data privacy app from Consumer Reports. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Don Marti and Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Introducing Permission Slip, the app to take back control of your data | Digital Lab a…
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Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers about teaching tech skills with online video and building communities. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: BASH Scripting 101 - YouTube Shawn Powers - Wikipedia — Shawn Powers (born 19 July 1975) is a journalist, Open Source evangelist, carto…
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Episode 137: Humans Are More Necessary Than Ever
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dan Miller of Opus Research about the future of Speech and AI. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Dan Miller. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Dan Miller, Author at — Dan Miller has over 25 years experience in marketing, business development and corporate strategy for telecom service pr…
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk about Facebook's recent Irish problems, Google's Performance Max ad product, and digress into discussing the Houston food scene as we welcome back Reality 2.0 for 2023. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Data Protection Commission tries to make victory of its U-turn on Fa…
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Ezequiel Lanza and Tony Mongkolsmai about ChatGPT, generative AI, and open source software. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Ezequiel Lanza and Tony Mongkolsmai. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Attention is All You Need – Google Research — The dominant sequence transduction models a…
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Episode 134: Email Disaster, Encrypted Backups and Chat GPT
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn have fun with ChatGPT, rant about email disasters, and chat about Apple's new encrypted backups. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue — We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a…
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Episode 133: Hardware Supply Chains, Trust Agility, and Avoiding Vendor Lock-in
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Why The U.S. Fell Behind In Phone Manufacturing - YouTube JMP: Your phone number on e…
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Episode 132: Mastodon Lifeboats for Twitter Users
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin discuss the ups, downs, and how-tos of using Mastodon amid Twitter's recent instability. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A S…
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Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk digital wallets and current events. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: The digital wallet will be the biggest instrument of personal agency since the browser—but only if we make it ours — Apple and Google already have a …
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Episode 130: What Happens to Twitter Now?
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls speculate about Twitter's future and discuss the evolution of audience engagement. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Things To Never Say To Someone Who Owns A Tesla — Unless you’d like to get run over by a rich, angry tech bro with a chip on their shoulder, you might want to …
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers talk communication breakdown in social media, its impact on our culture, and what technical solutions may exist. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid - The Atlantic — Wha…
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When Doc is away, Katherine and Shawn Powers play! (With Static HTML generators) Katherine and Shawn talk about Hugo, a static site generator, WordPress, and the content creator life. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: The world’s fastest framework for building websites | Hugo — Hu…
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Episode 127: Religion, Politics, and Other Taboo Subjects
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about religion, politics, tribalism, sexism, and viral blog posts. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Green Hair, Mustard Seeds, and Me - The Brain of Shawn — It’s been a couple weeks now, and my green hair is starting to fade.…
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Episode 126: Publishers vs The Internet Archive
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk about Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit targeting the Internet Archive that aims to prevent them from lending ebooks. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Hachette v. Internet Archive | Electronic Frontier Foundation — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), with co…
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss Apple's latest updates, the end of an era, neighborhoods, and more. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Apple Events - Apple Apple's Passkey Replaces Passwords With iPhone and Mac Authentication | WIRED — Apple’s iOS 16 and macOS Ventura will introduce passwordless logi…
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Katherine Druckman talks to Doc Searls about his Decentralized Web Camp experience. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: DWeb Camp — Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers, to gather in nature to tackle the real world challe…
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Episode 123: Open Source Home Automation with Home Assistant
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Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers about home automation using a combination of open source software and proprietary devices using Home Assistant. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powere…
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Episode 122: Health Data and Human Rights
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Adrian Gropper, CTO of Patient Privacy Rights, about health data and human rights, delegating patient agency, and health data standards. Special Guest: Adrian Gropper. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Patient Privacy Rights — Patient Privacy Rights’ purpose is to honor and empower the individual’s right to privac…
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about the data cars collect, where it goes, and how we’re really just driving around in a smart phone that we don’t even own. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? – The Markup…
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Episode 120: I'm Here (aka Happy Birthday, Doc)
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls celebrate Doc's birthday and chat about Amazon acquisitions and privacy legislation. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
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Episode 119: RapidDisk and Open Source Maintainership
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Katherine Druckman talks to Petros Koutoupis about maintaining RapidDisk, his open source RAM disk software. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: GitHub - pkoutoupis/rapiddisk: An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devic…
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Episode 118: Design and Fabrication with Inventables
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Zach Kaplan, CEO of Inventables, about design and fabrication with 3D carving, maker culture, and the history of Inventables. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Zach Kaplan. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Projects | Inventables Creating the First Usable Mouse | ideo.com — In 1…
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Gordon Jones and Erica Barnette about Thrivacy, their new digital wallet for private, verifiable credentials. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Erica Barnette and Gordon Jones. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Understanding DIDComm. A cross-community effort to standardize… | b…
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Episode 116: The state of the CMS vs Silos
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Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Adam Bergstein about the evolution of CMSes, the current landscape, and how they fit in with today’s siloed web. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Adam Bergstein. Support Reality 2.0 Links: DrupalCon 2022 Recap | Nerdstein — While the CMS and D…
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Paul Bailey of Cognitive Space about open source code, aerospace engineering, managing satellites, and the space shuttle! Listen to the end for your next weekend project. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Paul Bailey . Support Reality 2.0 Links: Cognitive Space — Access t…
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Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about how to advertise without being creepy. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Is Ethical Advertising Possible? – Purism — Is ethical advertising possible? We all certainly know unet…
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Episode 113: Authentic Users and Data
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dave Huseby of Cryptid.tech about pseudonymous authentication and verifiable data. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Dave Huseby. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Reality 2.0 Episode 112: Pseudonymous Authentication for Twitter — Katherine Druckman and Kyle Rankin talk to Dave …
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Episode 112: Pseudonymous Authentication for Twitter
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Katherine Druckman and Kyle Rankin talk to Dave Huseby about his new approach to pseudonymous user authentication. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Dave Huseby and Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Authentication With Pseudonymity - Cryptid Technologies — Authentication With Pseudonymity How Elon can Lega…
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Episode 111: Peer-to-Peer Messaging with Quiet
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Holmes Wilson about Quiet, a Tor-based peer-to-peer messaging project. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Holmes Wilson and Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: GitHub - ZbayApp/monorepo — An early prototype for a peer-to-peer alternative to Slack and D…
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Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Shawn Powers have far too much fun continuing the conversation about Mastodon and the fediverse, with a dose of photography. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
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Episode 109: From Twitter to the Fediverse with Mastodon
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Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin about moving from Twitter to the Fediverse using Mastodon, including how to choose a server and find your niche. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Giving social networking back to you - Mastodon — Fo…
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Episode 108: Microtargeting Warfare and Other Ad Tech Nightmares
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Don Marti about ad tech and its many consequences, as well as recent efforts to reform it. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Don Marti. Support Reality 2.0 Links: IAB Tech Lab — Today, IAB Tech Lab, the digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced an up…
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Episode 107: Building the Decentralized Web
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to James Walker of Fission about building the decentralized web, decentralized identity, IPFS, and empowering users. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: James Walker. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Build the future of web apps at the edge – Fission — Cloud native stacks won't deli…
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls revisit the topic of data privacy. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: Views on Current Laws and Practices to Protect Personal Data According to US Likely Voters, July 2021 (% of respondents) | Insider Intelligence ProjectVRM – Developing tools for customer independence…
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Episode 105: What is the Digital Markets Act?
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about the Digital Markets Act and Apple's personal finance plans. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Support Reality 2.0 Links: The Digital Markets Act: ensuring fair and open digital markets | European Commission — The Digital Markets Act (DMA) establishes a set of narrowly defined objecti…
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Episode 104: Digital Archives and Nomads
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Steven Roberts about digitizing media, photography, and retro computing. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Steven Roberts. Support Reality 2.0By Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls
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Episode 103: Supply Chain Security and Disaster
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Katherine Druckman talks to Kyle Rankin about global supply chain security, disaster and security preparedness, and the Librem 5. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kyle Rankin. Support Reality 2.0 Links: ‘Not the time to go poking around’: How former U.S. hackers view dealing with Russia - POLITICO — People with …
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman go a bit off-topic and talk to Shawn Powers about his memory loss. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: My Car Accident | The Brain of Shawn — On March 2, 1999, I was on my way to work. Apparently I had a cellphone…
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Episode 101: The Elephant in the Room, Journalism, and Disinformation
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers discuss wartime journalism and misinformation, and Shawn's brain. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Doc Searls Weblog · Where Journalism Fails — “What’s the story?” No question is asked more often…
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Episode 100: A Celebration with IPFS, Web3, and Home Automation
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Petros Koutoupis celebrate our 100th episode and talk Web3, IPFS, and home automation. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guests: Petros Koutoupis and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: My first web3 webpage | Dries Buytaert — How I built…
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Episode 99: IdRamp and Identity Solutions
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Mike Vesey, CEO of IdRamp, about verifiable credentials, decentralization, and real-world identity solutions. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Mike Vesey. Support Reality 2.0 Links: IdRamp Decentralized Identity Services IIW Reality 2.0 Episod…
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Episode 98: You Win Some, You Lose Some (Billions)
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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about how big tech navigates the ad tech landscape, for better or worse. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of th…
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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kaliya Young of the Internet Identity Workshop about ID.me, our concerns about its use as a national ID, and potential alternatives. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Kaliya Young. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Cybersecurity Company ID.me Is Becom…
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