David Swedlow's Wizard Academy Application

David Swedlow's blog touches on attention-related topics from time to time, and last month he mentioned AttentionTrust in his application to Wizard Academy's World Changers class, which begins tomorrow:

[M]y vision, my mission, my dream, is to create a software application (open source and peer-to-peer) that will allow individuals to voluntarily create an attention trail (analogous to an ant’s pheromone trail), which serves as a record of their travels on the web, in a secure and potentially anonymous way, such that we, as a collective, can better learn what it is we are doing as a whole, and what each of us can do better as individuals. On first hearing this, people immediately raise concerns about privacy and about the possibility to misuse or game this kind of system. Some of the recent technologies, such as SXIP (so-called identity 2.0), Gesture Bank, attention trust, and a general move toward decentralized, distributed services, addresses many of these considerations. The objections are well worth considering, but do not sense that they are insurmountable.

So was he accepted?

tags: attention attentiontrust attention+trust attention+economy attention+data david+swedlow wizard+academy world+changers