Dan Miller: The Context Conundrum: Intelligent Assistance Respects Privacy. An important bulletin to business from one of the leading authorities on customer engagement.

Made updates to the VRM Developers List.

U.S. CTO Megan Smith gives a nice shout-out to Cluetrain and New Clues, starting about six minutes into this White House Tech Meetup.

Wondering about how GoTenna and WebOfTrust are doing.

Secret Service dude was drinking on the job.

I want this pet drone. HT to @DavidBrin.

DANGER report. On Real Estate.

Birthdays: @debs, @hardaway. If we celebrated birth by years as well as days, every year would be everybody's birthyear.

Bonus link: e e cummings' death i think is no parenthesis.

A level of hell: being told a new AdobeFlashPlayer needs to be downloaded and installed.

Distributed Networks and the Law. Focuses on Bitcoin and block chain.