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Supernova 2003 Weblog See you next year! Thank you to everyone involved for making Supernova 2003 a success.... Tech Policy Outlook Moving things towards a conclusion, the Tech Policy Outlook panel is summarizing the regulatory atmosphere surrounding all of the efforts discussed during the conference. Speakers Bruce Mehlman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge and Blair Levin of Legg... FCC impromptu town hall In a stunning display of self-assembling ad-hocracy appropriate for a conference on decentralization, a collection of FCC employees gathered from the Supernova audience has taken the place vacated by the suddenly fever-addled Robert Pepper. Kevin's leading a town hall-style dscussion led by questions from the audience with the FCC representatives... Simon Phipps Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist of Sun Microsystems, takes the podium with the honest and useful perspective that "social software", while important, isn't new. Now Simon's here to tell us why this new old idea is important again in a massively connected environment.... David Weinberger Up now, David Weinberger brings the Cluetrain ethos to the new areas of digital identity and DRM, professing his end-user ignorance as his unique qualification for speaking for normal users and articulating the rights they would want to protect.... Decentralized Identity and Security Kevin's begun leadng a conversation about how digital identity and security will transform from the old model of "keeping the bad guys out" to a world where there are many levels of access and many sources of identity for users of a system. The panelists addressing these issues are James... VADM Dennis McGinn VADM Denny McGinn, U.S. Navy (Retired) has kicked off Day 2 of Supernova after a brief introduction by Kevin. The U.S. Navy's creation of a global information infrastructure with integration needs which cover not just worldwide locations but working with multiple nations in the course of one deployment present unique... New Platforms, New User Experiences Cory Doctorow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has moderated a panel on New Platforms and New User Experiences featuring Kevin Lynch of Macromedia, Merrill Brown of RealNetworks, R.J. Pittman of Groxis, Mena Trott of Six Apart and John Ko of Cincro.... more liveblogging udpates As ever, there's a host of great live transcripts of the proceedings, including Cory Doctorow's notes on the presentation by Craig Silverstein, along with the wireless frontier and investment panels. In addition, there's some good but brief notes from David Weinberger on the wireless frontier panel, some more excellent photos... John Blair John Blair, cofounder, Chairman, and CTO of Kenamea has begun explaining the fundamental tenets of the Occasionally Connected Computing concept which backs many of the technologies we're all discussing.... Newsfeed display by CaRP