Interesting that ClaimID (my current OpenID provider) are considering a subscription model, ClaimID nears 75k users.  As they say in their blog post: Unfortunately, running ClaimID is not cheap, so we’re going to strive for a model that is both sustainable and secure. I find myself increasing...

Brian Kelly has a blog post about the use that was made of Twitter during the writing and evaluation of a recent JISC call. I can't comment on the writing side of things, because I didn't do any, and I haven't done any analysis on the way Twitter was used as part of the evaluation proces...

I've been using the OpenDOAR API to take a quick look at the coolness of the URIs that people in the UK are assigning to their repositories.  Why does coolness matter?  Because uncool URIs are more likely to break than cool URIs and broken URIs for the content of academic scholarly r...

Pete has rather nicely answered the question, "What is ORE, really?".  In response, I'm tempted to ask a slightly different question, "What is ORE for, really?  In the ORE User Guide - Primer we find a 'Motivating Example' section which lays out some hard-to-re...

It seems to me that there is now quite a general acceptance of what the 'open access' movement is trying to achieve. I know that not everyone buys into that particular world-view but, for those of us that do, we know where we are headed and most of us will probably recognise it when we get there. He...

The JISC-funded Review of OpenID was recently made available, announced in a blog post by James Farnhill and resulting in quite a long thread of discussion on the jisc-shibboleth@jiscmail.ac.uk mailing list. The report is not exactly my cup of tea, though I can't find much fault with the individ...

It strikes me that we continue to do a lot of stuff as though we lived in a paper-only world... The whole scholarly communication cycle is a great example. Yes stuff surfaces on the Web - but only as PDF, a digital representation of traditional paper, and the way we cite and link between academic pa...

Writing at life under electronic conditions, Benedikt Koehler discusses Networks that matter on Twitter: the @-Crowd, suggesting that there are three kinds of networks at play: your direct network of followers/followees, a wider indirect network of their followers/followees, and your so called...

The election of community board members of the OpenID Foundation is underway and voting is now open. Snorri Giorgetti has a nice summary of why this is important (though I should note that using this link is not explicitly intended to endorse his candidacy).  As a non-profit member...

I don't suppose that the title of this post comes close to meaning anything in reality!  What it means in the very personal virtual world of InsideMyHead is, "I didn't go to the ReLIVE conference at the OU last week but I wish I had" :-).  Why?  Because it looks to have been a great success. Cer...