Google tells me LEGO is fifty today. To that honour, I post this link to the Lego Bible, which should show just how important it is to authenticate correctly through shibboleth………….

Noticed Eduserv are funding FE / HE to explore an “examination of establishing an online identity in a particular community”. Thats good news as it complements the work JISC is doing on its own Identity project, and also highlights how social networking tools are impacting how we perceive identity. The blurring of traditional identity managemnet is also all the more reason why HE / FE institutions should adopt improved control over management of their own students identities, which of course, technologies such as Shibboleth allow. For those on the “do nothing” side of the access management fence, its worth looking at what a burning issue identity is becoming among students, who may well become aware of it through social networking, but will easily make the species / system leap and perhaps put under the microscope their own identity relationship with their host institutions.

With apologies to Edmond Burke, Such a warning reminds me that “all it takes for confusion to flourish is for librarians to do nothing”