Disclosure

Bill Densmore's conflicts disclosure page

The author, Bill Densmore, was founder and remains a significant shareholder in Clickshare Service Corp., a privately held, Amherst, Mass., company which provides user authentication, registration and commerce services to content and other websites. In 2008, Clickshare was granted a patent:

• Clickshare patent granted/public: Jan. 29, 2008:
  HTML VERSION: http://tinyurl.com/2wtlpu
  PRINTABLE PDF: http://pimg-fpiw.uspto.gov/fdd/72/249/073/0.pdf
  

• Link to earlier news release about notice of allowance:
  http://tinyurl.com/2ukwj4
  http://www.clickshare.com/?p=151
  
  
• Second patent granted Dec. 10, 2013:
  http://www.clickshare.com/?p=565
  http://newshare.com/patent/csc-alternate-patent-80606719-12-10-13.pdf

A system based upon user sharing across the Internet where there are multiple home bases for users might conceivably involve licensing of Clickshare technology on terms which could financially benefit me. I have not been, since 2002, a director, officer or employee of Clickshare, although I do occasionally advise its management, generally without compensation.

I am also a founding shareholder in CircLabs Inc., along with three other individuals and the University of Missouri's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.

You can learn more about me at:

• http://billdensmore.wordpress.com/mini-bio
• http://www.rjionline.org/fellows-program/densmore-b/index.php
• http://www.facebook.com/bill.densmore

OTHER USEFUL LINKS

• The Information Trust Exchange project
• "From Paper to Persona" (2011 RJI white paper)
• "From Persona to Payment" (2014-2015 RJI report)
• http://www.journalismtrust.org
• http://tinyurl.com/ita-case -- the Case for the Information Trust Assn.
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/31153189/ita-summary-05-08-10
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/36797769/Making-the-Market-for-Digital-Information-in-an-Attention-Economy-slides

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