The Machine is Us/ing Us.

A stylish award-winning video from Mike Wesch, exploring how our everyday internet behaviour is building a new semantic-savvy digital world.

"Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. I was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, I decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it....


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Update: Identity Conference 2008

Re my earlier post: musings / mutterings on meta^2: Identity Conference 2008

Courtesy of delicious network (thanks ldodds) I found an interesting wiki-like debating tool (DebateGraph) which maps/visualises a debate into a specialised ontology.



A good example debate is the current UK national identity system 2008/09 discussion (3rd item in the list of features maps) which includes:

• The Government intends to introduce biometric residence permits for foreign nationals in 2008, with the first ID cards expected to be issued to British citizens in 2009.
• All UK residents over the age of 16 will be required to have a unique ID card that will combine the cardholder’s biometric data with checked and confirmed identity details, called a ‘biographical footprint’.

This particular debate is quite relevant to much of the conference discussion, which naturally oscillated between the philisophical, the technical and the off-topics ;)

Am I Linked In?

Ok I'm off work crook - bad weather and a really bad chest cold uugh. So I decided to check out LinkedIn an it seems I've got a number of IT colleagues using the network. Although the UI is quite old-school and unintuitive I'll give it a spin and see how it works out.



Other webservices and web technologies I use include:

1. Del.icio.us - my mainstay social tagging service (Recommended)
2. MoinMoin wiki for my Company website
3. Python and the Pylons webframework
   
4. And experimentally, Dapper