Tuesday, 3 November 2009

BA costume, make and technical effects in SL


Working with the first year BA Costume,Make Up and Techical Effects students on a project to design environments in Second Life some snapshots above

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

PAntone App for iphone

OMG a fantastic tool for designers with an iphone- see it here

Friday, 25 September 2009

Bloglovin

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Flat futures

a colleague just sent me this link- if you ever thought we had a paperless future think again - http://www.miquelmora.com/flatfutures.html
watch the video

Monday, 6 July 2009

Nighthawks

A fabulous video by my friend Frankie Rockett - making a painting come to life

Thursday, 21 May 2009

David Smith CABI

news from new coffee houses
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCj46vyR9o
80% of traffic not scholarly
netvibe - igoogle dashboard - personal or communal miacahel wesch - place for classwork
blogs - entire community use as a resource open- where is the scholarly content library? traditional stuff you dont see
Steven Pinker academia.edu social network base on org of the university - not just new generation power - neuroscience research
scribd- social publishing site - becoming distributor - use info to self police info on scibd
carefully constructed ocntent delivery paltforms into context
Mendeley - dangerous? bio science and computer science
web space and desktop app - use to manage research and share
copyright???? eszter hargattai - facebook and zombies
twitter and facebook not about celebrities enabling tools could be scholarly collaboration
avademia.edu= facebook connect link
info from CABI -specialist interest communities talk discuss share experience
Clay Shirky
single platform - transformative nature of the Internet
iphone - shazaam - apple one person to shazamm anothe
panoramoscope - view radar data place names other data - 60deg n and Dsouth align with data - augmented reality
starmap - universe simulator
commoditised - expensive data
kindle for iphone
new york times - personalised newspaper experience identity is embedded
forrester research future ofthe social web- report 2007
why do we insist they use our ID systems?
Do we want to make Facebook de facto model for ID control?
inforamtion flows down the path of least resistance
"the street finds its own uses for things uses the manufacturers never imagined"
william gibson
www.cabi.org
coming to uni with exp of having access to rich info having to login- username password 5% of users use personalisation - yet another username and password to remember - two services dont talk to each other
bibliographic database - 80% of use non academic

Mike Roche - Uni of Reading- director of IT services

Conducting at the Piazza Venezia- a vie from the intersection
it service is the traffic cop conductor and choreographer
contracts in place for key functions
services more important than IT
£270 /fe per user/yr
utility not idealogy
risk management proportionality
risk management - what is the impact of something going wrong?
Probability of ithappening accept - plan reduce impact - prevent
if likely to happen and hurt dont let it happen - likely to happen low impct- plan- probability low impact high reduce impact - low prob low impact - accept
new disciplines - with non tech IT background using complex IT-barriers to entry
storage - risky - information could be lost
common university usernacme synchronised across systems
encodign of data in passworkd - faculty- dept level registration year initials and serial number - attached to roles and resources
new format 2 random letters followed by 6 digits - 25% of second years changed faculty encoding no longer worked - sumer 2009 microsoft identity lifecycle manager service
ADAM acitve directory application mode to replace NIS

UCISA id management comes 13th in least of concerns
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/members/surveys/tc
challenges
porous boundaries and fluid structures Individual behaviours
LSE student survey at freshers week- test intelligence people apply to managing their data
327 student completed survey filling in personnel ID
LSE username 91%
library 63
facebook 40
lse logon 14
termtime address - 90
date of birth - 73
mobile numnber 67
credit card number - 30%
they traded their personal information - did a risk assessment
users dont want a traffic cop - institution - needs to manage stuff
big risks need strong controls small risks less so
give Bb usernames for collaborators in research projects

Nate Klingenstein

students dont use school library services except as means of last resort
Facebook - connect - easy to use -
Natural pressures
economic pressures discover trust ana ease of use
users developers administrators - we are lazy- path of least resistance
user data - google targeted ads
if they own your ID you will keep coming back
User data is expensive -
the more people adopt a solution the more valuable it becomes
security externalities - save now pay later????
security accidents- cost benefit analysisi
discovery pressures
users are lazy
interface work is hard - pull downs text boxes - open id not usuable only 20% able to use it
learned behaviour difficult to break - buttons win- uservoice??
social bookmarking syndrome- failed
Cardspace?? microsoft id management into OS - not yet successful
turst presures
consent based trust - user control
what to do ?
federated identity
any given site only support one form of ID
protocols
Shibboleth - ????
beyond protocol - economic and trust issues
Mozilla Weave????
One size will never fit all
user preferences- application needs - legal requirements
attributes natural sources of authority exist
lack of unification will lead to - user confusion - data duplication -----
integration of open ID in Shibboleth

Wednesday, 8 April 2009

New ways of presenting fashion

when times are hard necessity drives invention- designers are turning away from the catwalk and finding alternative ways of presenting-besutiful video for Gareth Pugh below



Billow from jotta on Vimeo.

Thursday, 12 March 2009

is this the future of eLearning


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html