Flower on Widcombe Hill
2 Jul 2009
Investigating the "Scott Cantor is a member of the IEEE problem"
2 Jul 2009
The UK Access Management Federation and other similar initiatives worldwide provide a SAML-based single sign-on solution for access to online resources for the education and research community. Typically, a user must sign-on to their home institution, using their local username and password, before being granted access to a remote online ... [read more]
Web
1 Jul 2009
Links
30 Jun 2009
Blipmojo
29 Jun 2009
Making the UK Federation usable
29 Jun 2009
About a year ago, in Bye, bye Athens... hello UK Federation, I questioned the rather grand claims being made about the then new UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research, notably that it would deliver "improved services to users", and wondered what the reality would be like. I think ... [read more]
Theatron 3 website
28 Jun 2009
Relaxing
28 Jun 2009
Balloon
27 Jun 2009
Back
26 Jun 2009
Official
25 Jun 2009
Twitter for idiots
25 Jun 2009
I'm just back from giving a 30 minute "Twitter for idiots" tutorial for one of our senior management team here at Eduserv. Note that the title isn't intended to be offensive - in fact, he chose it - but it certainly sums up the level of what I had to ... [read more]
Booksy
24 Jun 2009
Milking it
23 Jun 2009
Influence, connections and outputs
22 Jun 2009
Martin Weller wrote an interesting blog post on Friday, Connections versus Outputs - interesting in the sense that I strongly disagreed with it - that discussed a system for assessing an individual's "prominence in the online community of their particular topic" by measuring their influence, betweenness and hubness (essentially their ... [read more]
The rise of green?
22 Jun 2009
I attended the Terena Networking Conference 2009 in Malaga a couple of weeks ago where several of the keynote talks focused on the environment, global warming, the impact that data centres and ICT more generally have on this, and the potential for cloud-based solutions to help. The talks were all ... [read more]
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