After a few more moments of thought following my last post I imagine what we could do is implement OpenID consumption so that rather than forcing people to be pre-approved before they get a light-weight account they can be post-approved. That is to say, if you’ve registered for a light-weight account using an Open...

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Plenty of people have said in the last few days that there are more OpenID providers than there are OpenID-consuming services. I have some basic code which, if enabled, would grant everyone at the University I work at an OpenID. This isn’t the challenge though; where could we turn on OpenID consumption in

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The output from Person Finder, the University of Bath‘s staff and student directory is now marked up with hCard. For example, check out my entry. The amount of ...

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It’s Fresher’s Week at the University of Bath, and the place is filled with bright and eager young things walking around whilst members of various clubs and organisations try and recruit them with ever more exciting...

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Typical, just as I get a job at the University of Bath, Simon Willison finishes 😉

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Having not used it for about four years, I’m slightly scared by the ease with which I remembered all of the keyboard shortcuts in Pine (in fact I knew some of the shortcuts without consciously trying to remember them). Pine was the standard Uni email client at the University...

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I really like blue, and that’s why there’s lots of it on this site, and not much else. There’s also no content, but shhhh and no-one will notice. I’m in the middle of my University finals, with two more to go before I can finally leave Reading and get to live with my utterly wonderful girlfriend in Sheffield. It’s been a swine of a year, although I’ve learnt loads and loads (mostl...

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