It is Sunday, about noon, and I eventually find some time to listen to two very interesting podcasts/videos regarding my favourite topics at the moment: OpenID and data portability.
First, there is Chris Messina’s already famous video, The Existential DiSo Interview, where he interviews himself about DiSo and its possibilities (read more about DiSo here). DiSo is one of the projects where people seem to actually work on things. So it’s cool to hear that Chris and friends want to have a demo available at SXBW in March already. The demo should allow importing friends, share data with them on a remote site, and sending an activity stream back to where the user originally came from. Let’s see if they can manage to do that. Surely some self-imposed pressure.
Also please notice that cool Eboy poster in the background; it’s also hanging on the wall above my monitor. Good choice. 
The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo.
Next is an interview conducted by Phil Windley with Scott Kveton for IT Conversations. It’s a very long interview - 55 minutes - spanning topics from OpenID, of course, to data portability, Scott’s new employer MyStrands, OpenIDDevCamp, and also the forthcoming Social Graph Foo Camp.
I recommend both interviews to everyone who is interested in data portability and OpenID. Both cover a lot of topics, often in much detail, explaining the core concepts. I think they are even accessible to people who have not heard or read much about the topics.
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