Part I in an elegant case for codifying our online IDs as legally transferable assets:

"As creatures, we humans are distinguished not only by our intelligence and use of language, but also by two other remarkable characteristics: our mobility and our expansiveness. We are relatively hairless and walk on two feet because we are runners. A well-conditioned human can run indefinitely. We also expand our very selves though [sic] the things we invent, hold and manipulate. Our senses spread out through our clothes, our tools and our tech by a process called indwelling. When drivers say "my wheels" or pilots say "my wings", they mean it personally. The perimeters of our selves are not bound by our bodies. They extend to include the tech we use. To become expert is to enlarge ourselves, whether as carpenters, drivers, pilots, or whatever."

- Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, and a pretty nice guy, despite a penchant for luau shirts.

--I picked up my March 2009 copy at #sxsw, where Doc and I shared the backseat of the Super Shuttle from the Austin airport sitting for 20 mins.

---Doc and one of our good buddies from 31volts (thanks Marcel! Marc Fonteijn you rock!) helped us launch Nexthealth.NL on the backchannel at MoMo (during Doc's talk) in Amsterdam last spring.

----Doc - let me know how in the health VRM can help us make "patient" and "provider" seem as antiquated as "mainframe" and "minicomputer."