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Rob Pegoraro<p><strong>Weekly output: Internet founders in D.C., Tim Berners-Lee at Web Summit, Bluesky account-verification advice</strong></p><p>This holiday-shortened week still had a lot of work–just not all the kind that yielded bylines, in some cases not the kind that will yield bylines this year.</p><p>11/25/2024: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/internet-founders-open-architectures-are-best-but-big-tech-makes-it-difficult" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Internet Founders: Open Architectures Are Best, But Big Tech Makes It Difficult</a>, PCMag</p><p>As I <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2024/11/23/reminder-its-neat-covering-a-technology-when-its-inventors-are-still-around-to-talk-about-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wrote last week</a>, it’s a treat seeing Internet pioneers speak about how their collective invention has been working out and what we ought to be doing with it.</p><p>11/27/2024: <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91231379/tim-berners-lee-solid-inrupt-pod-digital-wallet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The man who gave us the web is building a better digital wallet</a>, Fast Company</p><p>My Fast Company editor Harry McCracken asked if I wanted to join him to quiz the inventor of the Web at Web Summit, and I quickly said I’d clear my schedule for that. Like&nbsp;<a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2022/11/13/weekly-output-web-summit-tim-berners-lee-1password-slingbox-rocket-lab/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">two years ago</a>,&nbsp;Harry asked most of the questions and then wrote up our conversation.</p><p>11/29/2024: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/real-or-imposter-how-to-verify-that-a-bluesky-account-is-legit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Real or Imposter? How to Verify That a Bluesky Account Is Legit</a>, PCMag</p><p>My inspiration for this how-to came from <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/robpegoraro.com/post/3lbfkwvwi4k2r" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">seeing some bozo try to impersonate Rep. Don Beyer</a> (D.-Va.) on Bluesky, then wondering why my congressman had not <a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">domain-verified</a> his account with a house.gov handle, then <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/robpegoraro.com/post/3lbfvcaomt22h" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">personally shaming Bay Area Rapid Transit into tweeting its Bluesky handle from its verified X account</a> (BART has since domain-verified its account). My editors then updated the post Sunday with details from <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3lc4h7p676225" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">posts Friday afternoon by Bluesky’s safety account</a> about how the platform is dealing with this impersonation problem–including a recognition that “users want more ways to verify their identity beyond domain verification.”</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/account-impersonation/" target="_blank">#accountImpersonation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/bluesky/" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/domain-name-verification/" target="_blank">#domainNameVerification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/project-liberty/" target="_blank">#ProjectLiberty</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/social-media-fraud/" target="_blank">#socialMediaFraud</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/social-media-verification/" target="_blank">#socialMediaVerification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/steve-crocker/" target="_blank">#SteveCrocker</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/tbl/" target="_blank">#TBL</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/tim-berners-lee/" target="_blank">#TimBernersLee</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/vint-cerf/" target="_blank">#VintCerf</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/web-of-trust/" target="_blank">#webOfTrust</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/web-summit/" target="_blank">#WebSummit</a></p>