If you don’t have time to read all of this blog, I will jump straight to the chase! If you work in a library, we would love you to fill out this survey. If you are a researcher, we would love you to fill out this survey. Both will help direct an EU study that … Read more
This is one of those posts that could be a response to someone else’s post but got so long, it’s here. It’s my thoughts on a long chain of people thinking, which are most effectively summarised by Amber. I’m not going to rehash the conversations – the people that have gone before me have done … Read more
I think we are all quite accepting now of the fact that ‘the customer is always right’ has been replaced with ‘the computer is always right’. All around the world, companies are struggling to offer even basic customer services (I buy stuff, you send stuff) as confused ‘support’ staff battle to make computers do what … Read more
It’s not been very big or very splashy as far as announcements go, but Google has announced its latest attack on the social networking space in the form of Google+. I’m assuming this is to be pronounced Google-Plus, but I rather like the idea of calling it Google-And 🙂 I’ve oft been known to talk … Read more
How proud are you? How interested in your online reputation? When was the last time you googled yourself? Probably more recently that you’d like to admit, but we all do it! I am regretfully a poorly known Nicole Harris. My light is often eclipsed by an American gymnast (she must retire soon!) and an American … Read more
I came across this interesting article about OpenID via @foolington from the JISC Logins for Life project. OpenID has naturally hit that point in its life where people are talking about it being dead and failing to achieve its goals – we see this dip with all products and we saw the same criticism of SAML, which I believe is now firmly embedded as a mainstream standard supporting a variety of technologies (including OpenID). Read more
In honour of today’s ‘Identity Management Matters‘ event (which I am missing, due to gastric flu) I thought I would contribute a post to the conversation rather than my presence. This can be found on twitter at #idm. One of the ways in which people typically open an Identity Management event these days is to … Read more
After a lot of soul searching with regards to the current funding cuts, I have decided that it will be appropriate to go ahead with FAM10 this year with a real focus on practical benefits for librarians and developers. This decision was based on: The excellent feedback we received for FAM09; The fact that I … Read more
A couple of interesting access and identity management issues in the news over the last few days. I bang on a lot on this site about ‘persona’ and how i think this is different from ‘identity’ (i.e. you can have multiple persona but not multiple identities unless you are a criminal). A good example of … Read more
There is a scene in Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian” where Brian is on the run from the Romans and ends up meeting the shop keeper from hell who wants him to haggle (for a beard). For some reason, this popped in to my head whilst reading lis-e-resources this week, and a discussion on … Read more