These are the folks that I read closely as it relates to Digital Identity and how that will soon play into our ability to purchase, play, and promote.

http://doc.weblogs.com/ Doc Searls

ID Commons Drummond Reed who is on the board wrote: The Social Web: Creating An Open Social Network with XDI

The Gillmore Gang: Steve Gillmor contributing
editor ZDNet, Doc Searls senior editor Linux Journal, Jon Udell lead analyst InfoWorld Test Center, Dana Gardner senior analyst Yankee Group. The Gillmore Gang Blog.

http://scripting.com/

http://www.cordance.net/cordance-team.html Drummond Reed founder of Cordance in Seattle.

http://marc.blogs.it/ Marc Canter has a lot to say about everything I've been researching.

http://www.identityblog.com/ Kim Cameron Identity Weblog talks about identity in a virtualizing world. The problem is that - at the same time - one way to do identity is too few. And this is what explains why the creation of a universal system of identity is one of the greatest challenges blocking the evolution of technology and the virtual world.

http://www.craigburton.com/ Craig Burton.

http://blog.midentity.com/blog/913 Simon Grice in London working on Midentity.

http://www.windley.com/
Phillip J. Windley is a nationally recognized expert in
using information technology (IT) to add value to the business.
He regularly consults with businesses on this topic and is
particularly interested in the areas of interoperability, web
services, XML, and digital identity. Dr. Windley is a frequent author
and speaker on these topics and authors a free, daily web-based
newsletter at www.windley.com.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/ Steve Gillmor