Innovation, economics, society at large – Page 84

Milky Way of ratings

One for the holiday season: The star classification of hotels (in the Netherlands) will become meaningless. Or rather, nothing is mandatory anymore and there will be two standards to choose and rate by. So, we’ll have a Milky Way full of ratings.
And don’t come to me with the argument that user reviews dominated the skies (Internet) already. First, as the article states, tourists still pick hotels by their star rating; and second, user ratings with all their flaming and rigging have been even more useless than any official one. Though the latter was too simple to game, as well. E.g., having a ‘spa’ of sorts (basement with two massage beds and a puddle (-sized pool) upped any hostel with another star.

But then, what now?

Will restraint win at the end of the day, or will by that time the restrained have fallen back too much to cope and join the hyperinflation that came from below?

[How would you rate this view, if at all? Madrid]

Hopefully, CitizenMe will be trending

This may be a trend: Decide yourself what personal data to ‘sell’, and for how much. First step: Know what you ooze out. Hopefully, through this we’ll awake and implement Jaron Lanier’s dreams…

And even before this post came out, there’s an [update] to do … With this.

And then, of course:
DSCN0088 [‘goza just like that, for no apparent quality or reason]

IoTsec as expected

Yawn. A decade of humongous growth in Information security is coming. To tackle the likes of this.
Think of where the somewhat organized, somewhat budgeted, somewhat up to it corporate world now is. (With the public organization world lagging, seriously, on all counts.) Then think of what it would take to make the general public ‘safe’.

And then think of how many InfoSec professionals would be needed. Yeay! Indeed, as in:
[Onto Val d’Orcia, as you spotted]

Wired / Tired / Expired, August 2014 edition

[‘oliday snapshot, underadvertised]

So, here’s the August edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag:

Not. I’m taking a holiday break on this. Will be back per September to hit you with ~~my rhythm stick~~ seriously important, and interesting, trends of the month.

OK, one then, in simple format:

Wired	Tired	Expired
Pivoting	Pitching	Business Idea without Plan
As ‘invented’ in 1985 or so. Now suddenly… some business booklet became popular ..!?	You know, like in 2, 1, … minutes. Uselessly brief, indeed.	Sigh. What did you smoke, now legally?

And, maybe, a link to some article that goes into the T and E problematics somewhat further… here.
Hence, any suggestions for that Sept edition ..?

A thong to thing to

Or so. In a way. This, seems to cover most of them. But not all … and yours, may be weirder. Sorry, is, because yours.

And, of course:
[Razor sharp banking. Still ..?]

Gotta TruSST’MM

Had been planning for a long (?) time already to write something up on the issue of Trust in OSSTMM3© – in particular, how it doesn’t conform with received (abstract) notions of trust and how that’s a bit confusing until one thinks it through wide and deep enough.

First, a picture:
DSCN4198
[Controlled to I/O, Vale]

Then, some explanation:
As I get it (now!), the OSSTMM model defines Trust as being an entry into or out of a system/component (objects, processes). The thing you may do when you are trusted. Literally, not the protection wall but the hole in that wall. Which isn’t some opinion thing the holder has of the visiting tourist. Interesting, but troublesome in its unsettling powers.

Dang. Running out of time again to delve into this deep enough – in particular where I wanted to link this to a previous post about identity and authentication … (this post in Dutch). OK. will move on for now, and return later. Already, if you have pointers to resolution of the differences (the whole scale (?) of them), don’t hesitate.

We Need New Sixties

Just an off the cuff remark. We need new Sixties. The world of totalitarian bureaucratic control, in business and in governance (if you’d reply that there’s governance in business as well, take a hike. With due apologies, that was putting it diplomatic already), has come to an end. It has failed to deliver the global commons cooperation required to deal with planetary issues. More of the same will not do.

Oh, if only we had the Sixties all over again, where old (political informal) structures were attacked by a very select very few opponents… That in the end quickly converted to being maybe even worse that their predecessors. Um.

That is why all of you should be wanting to have a translation of Tegen Verkiezingen
9200000007452360
[Get it. That’s an order or in the alternative a recommendation]

Yes, yes, working on a Book by Quote post indeed [to be posted per 25/8]. But would be in Dutch.
And, after an initial euphoria of recognition of many lingering ideas, I found some solutions still wanting. So, when I do the follow-up reading of referenced and secondary literature, do you help develop the many loose ends ..? E.g., relations with the decline of information/communication costs and -troubles so we can do so much more (not physically, not-physically) close interaction as to make all the nation sit around the old oak tree ..? In a systemic, structural, and operational way of development, e.g., through Internet voting with all the safeguards..?

No Yo (~ Carpe Diem)

Well Hello! has anyone seen an app this stupid lately ..? Yoyoyo!
Looks a bit like:

[Dutchies read this review; star rating appropriate: (Parool review)]

Or remember the I Am Rich app:

Altogether, this sort of thing is for the yolo generation, that had forgotten how hip it is to not know one’s Carpe Diem – right! Same expression, same content. Sort of, not; the original at least had the idea to let you make most of life, not to get you out of the gene pool ASAP as per these awards that have been around since the inception of the ‘Net …
[Updated to add: Yo themselves can’t seem to grasp their own irony, as in this article…]

SecSec, two angles

Thothtech has a very useful and readable overview of ‘national’ versus ‘personal’ security.
Go read it a realize the balance has gone.

Go on! I meant that!
[Such detail, much masterpiece]

Business Model Down

[Deventer for zero relation with the following]

Although probably hardly still the core money maker for Big G, collecting search data for may fall back maybe significantly in the near future. Since, e.g., when did you last search for something specific enough that patterns may emerge from it..? Wasn’t it just point-and-shoot search-phrase-for-single-answer work that you did, if at all because you entered full URLs anyway ..?

Unless you’re of course part of the hoi polloi that delivers such low ultimate revenue to advertisers that it’s not worth it just return to mass marketing and don’t need Big G data specifics for that.

{Edited to add:]
… Ah, so that’s why said company is moving so swiftly into AI…