An interesting new approach, where you use a mob of computers scattered around the internet to verify the consistency and persistency of a security certificate:

More people are jumping on the OpenID bandwagon, the latest being MySpace:

BBC: MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme

Oh noes! That darned government is working to cut off communications between us, the people, and our duly elected officials:

Where do all those editors and busybodies at Wikipedia find the time to do all that work?

I've been doing a fair amount of handwaving lately, describing the Connect-the-Dots experience to a few select people, and I've been getting a really good response.

Allowing special comments on news stories from the actors in those stories. Here's a snarky article talking about it:

http://tinyurl.com/2ou3ud

And a sample from Google: