Comments on: Indentity & Management

By: Musica latina

Musica latina — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:11:23 +0000

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By: Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » How big is your mission?

Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » How big is your mission? — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:02:36 +0000

[...] Last Christmas I was evangelizing about Flickr to a local library. I stole a photo from her Recent Photos page and uploaded it to my Flickr account to demonstrate tagging, commenting, notes, sets and all that great stuff. Important holiday festivities then beckoned and we drifted away. [...]

By: Lichen

Lichen — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:34:49 +0000

Way to go to Cornell for reacting to the Facebook trend with appropriate guidance and information provision instead of simply creating policies to prevent access… we need to teach children how to handle dangers implicit in the world, not simply restrict their access to it.

By: randyvt

randyvt — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:33:09 +0000

Managing . . .
It’s an interesting notion, who should be responsible for leading in this evolving space?
The tools and the connections are changing, and becoming ever stronger, potentially. But the sheer volume may act to mitigate the effectiveness. Anyway, I believe IT in higher ed has a social obligation to foster communication and discussion about the types of manangement and the effect of the tools on your identity, causing the students (mostly 18-23 year olds) and the old fart faculty (mostly 35 to 55 year olds) to ponder the ethics and the meaning of what they’re doing, and what others and other systems may be doing to them.

I suggest reading as one nice piece on this issue: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/policy/memos/facebook.html . There are no doubt others — should anyone read this and have another, please share.

By: Lichen

Lichen — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:38:09 +0000

I just realized last night that I rely heavily on the “forgot password?” function on many websites… I make them email me my password all the time. Not a very secure solution, but these are the risks we take.

By: Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » Geek Secrets

Remaining Relevant » Blog Archive » Geek Secrets — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:40:50 +0000

[...] I’ve been following up on Danny O’Brien’s research and the fall out from his presentation at O’Reilly’s 2004 Emerging Technology Conference. Cory Doctorow noted: Power-users don’t trust complicated apps. Every time power-geeks has had a crash, s/he moves away from it. You can’t trust software unless you’ve written it — and then you’re just more forgiving… Every program that can read mail ends up getting used for everything else. [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:46:31 +0000

While reading this, it all made sense to me. When I got to the end, though, I wonder just how useful an identify management gadget would be in a library setting. I mean, when it comes to libraries, the “P” in “PC” stands for public, not personal, and it is important for us to protect patron privacy on these public terminals. I would be afraid that some kind of gadget would “train” people to be even more sloppy with their information - especially if it were some kind of program installed locally on library computers.

The alternate would be some website that would manage identifies for us, but that would, a) be one more login we’d have to remember, and b) be a prime target for identity burglars. And of course, the same danger exists with this as with low-tech solutions: people could just as easily walk away from a computer while still logged into this website as they could leave behind their piece of paper with all their passwords written on it.

(As for me, I have a paper at work [for a job I only started three months ago, it already has twenty-one identities on it], a paper at home [which dates to 1995 and has no white space anywhere on it anymore], and also use the email-myself-my-account-information method.)

So, I’m not sure what format a gadget like this could take and be ultimately useful. Perhaps something like a palm pilot that could connect to a computer via usb, and link directly to websites and log us in using the palm’s interface and data.

Or of course there are the more extravagant solutions - biometerics, and use a fingerprint scan to log into everything, or a national identification card, where we use our social security number to log into everything. Personally, I’ll stick with the piece of paper.

By: Lise

Lise — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:39:37 +0000

Wow, how crazy and timely is this entry? Recently I had just written all of my login/pwds for my various blogs in a notebook! Only in the meantime, of course.

As for task management, I know my husband Tony was big on David Allen’s Getting Things Done for a while. Then he lent the book to his boss, who promptly lost it among the mounds of work paraphernalia around his cubicle.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:25:16 +0000

I’m not sure what I’d do if my browser cookies and saved passwords were lost. Having them all together, all the time is my primary reason for toting my laptop all over the place.

And when a new site asks me to create an account — another identity — I often walk away.