Danny Weitzner is working on a FOAF extension called 'REP' which stands for Reciprocal Privacy. I'll have to think about this - I've said before that Trust is a tough problem, and in solving that problem the 'beta' users are going to get screwed on the privacy front. 

Photos from Santacon. We saw quite a few of these people in the pub on Saturday. By 'quite a few', I mean - oh - six hundred or so. 

In other phone-related news, I've started a page on microformats.org called operator-phone-tests to try out different mobiles and see how they handle exported hCards, hCalendars etc. Test out your phone with Operator and add it to the page. 

classictelephonering.mid is a MIDI file that gives you a normal telephone ring sound. Useful if your mobile comes with some funky 'youth-oriented' ringtone that sounds like a incontenent parrot on crack, as Sony Ericsson seems to want my phone to sound like. 

A new Philosophers' Carnival is online, with discussions of everything: evolution and consciousness, utilitarianism and neurology and enough metaphysics to take your mind off the miserable, freezing cold.