Posts Tagged ‘socio-digital life’
Recommended article: rethinking passwords
Posted by: clare on: March 15, 2013
William Cheswick‘s recent CACM article, Rethinking Passwords, is an excellent and timely read. As Cheswick points out, there is “an authentication plague upon the land”, with everyday internet users running dozens of accounts that all require passwords. Account providers often enforce inconsistent and incomprehensible rules about each of those passwords (“at least 6 characters, but [...]
Where are we on open social networking?
Posted by: clare on: November 27, 2011
Once upon a time, everyone was talking about the concept of open social networking: we saw a brave new world where social networking corporations wouldn’t hold our data in proprietary formats, where we’d have ownership of and access to our data. What’s the latest on that, people? Of course, Diaspora has been widely publicised as [...]
MoMA’s Talk To Me exhibition
Posted by: clare on: November 24, 2011
This post is a delayed shout-out to New York’s Museum of Modern Art for a superb exhibit. Sadly it ended a couple of weeks ago, but at the end of last month I had the absolute pleasure of finding myself in their Talk To Me exhibition, on ‘Design and the Communication between People and Objects’. It was about [...]
Tiree Tech Wave 2
Posted by: clare on: November 16, 2011
The Tiree Tech Wave was planned as an unstructured event. There were a few pre-arranged components (for example, a chap from the local ISP dropped in to discuss broadband provision in remote communities), but in general the event depended very much on we the participants. 11 of us made the pilgrimage to the island, and [...]
Socio-Digital Experiences: Panos Markopoulos’ Symposium
Posted by: clare on: November 12, 2011
Two months ago, Panos Markopoulous gave his inaugural lecture on socio-digital experiences. I’ve written about that already, but have yet to describe the preceding symposium. This was a really cool few hours in which six people — hand-picked by Panos — came up to speak about their work and how it related to the theme of [...]
Socio-Digital Experiences: Panos Markopoulos’ Inaugural
Posted by: clare on: September 25, 2011
A wonderful colleague of mine, Panos Markopoulos, gave his inaugural lecture earlier this month. It was the second inaugural I’ve attended (the first being Tim Berners-Lee’s in Southampton, 2007), and was much more formal: a column of professors in Solumn Black Gowns trooped in, a Dude with a Mace introduced things, and there was Doffing [...]
