The case for OpenID lite

Recently – both in my roll as a developer on the Elgg project, and as one of the organisers of Barcamp Transparency – I have found myself having to sign up for a whole bunch of accounts for various sites. Each one asks me to fill in a profile, and each time I end up […]

Marcus Povey

Recently – both in my roll as a developer on the Elgg project, and as one of the organisers of Barcamp Transparency – I have found myself having to sign up for a whole bunch of accounts for various sites. Each one asks me to fill in a profile, and each time I end up […]

Barcamp Apache Oxford

Yesterday I spent a fantastic day down at the university club attending the much anticipated Oxford Barcamp. I can honestly say that the whole event came as an invigorating breath of fresh air and I want to say a great big thank you to all those who helped organise the event – as well as […]

Marcus Povey

Yesterday I spent a fantastic day down at the university club attending the much anticipated Oxford Barcamp. I can honestly say that the whole event came as an invigorating breath of fresh air and I want to say a great big thank you to all those who helped organise the event – as well as […]

Business in the Panopticon

Anyone who has spoken to me for more than a few minutes knows that I am very much a civil libertarian at heart, and believe that the so called compromise between freedom and security is one of the worst kinds of politically motivated false dichotomy. Having grown up under the threat of IRA bombings and […]

Marcus Povey

Anyone who has spoken to me for more than a few minutes knows that I am very much a civil libertarian at heart, and believe that the so called compromise between freedom and security is one of the worst kinds of politically motivated false dichotomy. Having grown up under the threat of IRA bombings and […]