1) It's the Ello bill. And Ello is, for all its goodnesses, another commercial entitity with a closed social network. Yes, it's well-behaved and a nice alternative to Facebook, but it's still not the Web, but a private walled garden on it.

2) I like yielding to the "certain inalienable rights" clause of Jefferson's original Declaration, published on this day 239 years ago. Not sure the Ello's list includes nothing but inalienable ones. But I'm open.

Real-time tropospheric ducting map, by John Harder. When "tropo" happens, the range of FM stations suddenly increases, sometimes by hundreds of miles. Very common in summer. (Explained here.) Also dig the amazing William Hepburn and his DX Info Centre. Here is his worldwide forecast. Wish this existed when I was totally into this stuff.

Privacy is Personal. My latest column in Linux Journal.

An example of what's right and wrong about CRM from @RelateIQ:

Alexander Howard: Embracing the Internet of Things Means Managing Privacy Risks With Care. Lots of links.

Jessica Groopman at Atlimeter Group: Consumer Perceptions of Privacy in the Internet of Things: What Brands Can Learn from A Concerned Citizenry.

Rawn Shaw at Forbes expands on Jessica's report with Do Privacy Concerns Really Change With The Internet Of Things? Here's a short answer: My things are mine, and therefore private, whether or not they're on the Net, and regardless of who makes or sells them. Writes Rawn, "Once we have a better realization of this situation, we might figure out that there are possible passive revenue streams for us individually, or better ways to handle what other interests do with our information. Whether it is the profit motive or personal privacy that influences you, start by asking for information how it is used, that isn’t buried or obfuscated in legal jargon." This assumes that entities other than ourselves have full agency while we don't. We need to fix that by creating full agency for ourselves. BTW, this Pew report and this Wharton one tell a better story than the Altimeter one, for these reasons:

@JacksonShaw: Nice to see #UMA and #VRM mentioned in CACM's latest journal "Managing Your Digital Life"! @xmlgrrl @ForgeRock @dsearls

MyWave earns $50m valuation as it looks to ride PDA boom. Here's a .pdf of the article.

Meeco's ���The Internet of You’ Wins People’s Choice Award at Amplify Expo.

Fing: Shared Personal Data Revolutionizing Customer Relationship. Key slide: #7.

Pourquoi rendre ses données à l'utilisateurs est innovant ?. Follow this tweet by @Datacces.

Gotta love this illustration of the difference between user experience and design. Via @ktorn.

"Digital media has created, perhaps inexorably, an ever-larger, ever-more-low-value audience. As a response to this, or in tandem with this, advertising agencies have de-emphasized, even hollowed out, what had been their core talent and purpose—crafting vivid and theatrical consumer fantasies—in favor of being operators that profit off the transaction of ad placement, the measurement of response, and even the facilitation of payment.

"As the head of a big digital agency said to me: 'We don’t do story. We facilitate the handshake by moving the cash register closer to the consumer. That’s much more economical and efficient than trying to create demand and desire.'

"In other words, the ultimate result is that there will be no advertising, not advertising of the kind that believed in investing large amounts of money to transform attitudes and behavior. Instead there will be more process and efficiency, the stuff that technology is good at, but that undermines the uniqueness of media and hence its value."