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- OpenID "Hello World" on apache still deep magicYesterday
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I have a home movie that I just want to show to just a few friends around the Web. With OpenID, I should be able to just give my web server a list of my friends' pages, right?
I eventually found a README for mpopenid with just what I wanted:
PythonOption authorized-users "http://alice.com/ http://bob.com/"
But that wasn't on the top page of hits on a search for "apache OpenID". (Like most sites, mine runs on apache.) The top hit is mod_auth_openid, but its FAQ that says my use case isn't directly supported:
Is it possible to limit login to some users, like htaccess/htpasswd does? No. ... If you want to restrict to specific users that span multiple identity providers, then OpenID probably isn't the authentication method you want. Note that you can always do whatever vetting you want using the REMOTE_USER CGI environment variable after a user authenticates.
So I installed the prerequisites for mpopenid: libapache2-mod-python and pyt
- President-Elect Obama’s electronic medical records goalYesterday
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The original appearance of this entry was in Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy
From Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama
As Prepared for Delivery
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Thursday, January 8, 2009[..]
“To improve the quality of our health care while lowering its cost, we will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years, all of America’s medical records are computerized. This will cut waste, eliminate red tape, and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests. But it just won’t save billions of dollars and thousands of jobs – it will save lives by reducing the deadly but preventable medical errors that pervade our health care system.”
[..] - The paradox of information flow in transitionNovember 11 2008
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The original appearance of this entry was in Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy
A wonderfully perceptive and funny characterization from outgoing US Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean (Health care contenders - Chris Frates - Politico.com):
Dean said: “I’m not going to say anything about anything to do with transition. Generally, those who talk don’t know, and those who know don’t talk. And I don’t know what he’s [President-elect] going to do, but I ain’t talking.”
- First legal shot across the Semantic Web’s bow - Thomson suing ZoteroOctober 6 2008
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The original appearance of this entry was in Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy
Last week Thomson Reuters (the owner of EndNote Software, a widely used proprietary tool for collecting and managing scholarly bibliographic information) filed a lawsuit against Zotero, the most popular open source, Semantic Web-enabled bibliographic tool. Zotero, packaged as a Firefox extension, is a handy tool for collecting bibliographic metadata to assist scholars in managing information necessary for their research (news story, complaint). Zotero can import and export a variety of different bibliographic formats and does so in a web-friendly, RDF-enabled way. Exchanging and linking bibliographic information (ie., the title, author, publication venue) of scholarly communication is an important means to discover new links amongst individual pieces of research that are published around the world. This has been a high priority, for example, in the life sciences where new knowledge can be uncovered by linking individual pieces of research together.
The latest beta release of Zo
- Justice Brandeis and privacy protection through usage restrictionSeptember 17 2008
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The original appearance of this entry was in Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy
For a couple of years, colleagues of mine and I have been writing about the need to protect privacy through rules and laws restricting how information is used, not just who can access the personal information. So, I was very happy to discover that a famous early exposition of privacy rights in United States law (Olmstead v. United States (1928)), by the most famous judicial advocate of privacy rights, Justice Louis Brandeis, expressed a clear sentiment in favor of protecting privacy based on how information is used, not just whether one is entitled to have access to it or not. In the course of explaining why earlier Supreme Court legal precedents should be understood to make wiretapping illegal, Brandeis wrote
Unjustified search and seizure violates the Fourth Amendment, whatever the character of the paper; [n4] whether the paper when taken by the federal officers was in the home, [n5] in an office, [n6] or elsewhere; [n7] whether the taking was effected by force, [n8] by [p478] fraud, [n9] or in the orderly process of a court’s procedure. [n10] From these decisions, it follows necess