{"id":45,"date":"2008-08-04T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T19:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-08-04T12:53:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T19:53:40","slug":"a-surfeit-of-usernames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/08\/a-surfeit-of-usernames\/","title":{"rendered":"A surfeit of usernames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI note that several participants in the Learning 2.0 programme at Imperial have<br \/>\nmentioned that dealing with all the additional accounts they are<br \/>\ncreating as they take part in the course (so far, MSN\/Windows Live,<br \/>\nWordpress, Wetpaint, Bloglines or Google Reader)<\/p>\n<p>Where services are offered by the Imperial ICT<br \/>\nservice one advantage is that they usually integrate with the standard Imperial<br \/>\nusername and password &#8211; so you only have to remember one login. It may<br \/>\nalso be worth mentioning that Wetpaint supports a login method called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/openid.net\/\">OpenID<\/a>&#8216;<br \/>\nwhich is a way of using a single username\/password (owned by the user,<br \/>\nnot by the service they are logging in to), to access many sites. In<br \/>\ntheory it is a great idea, although in practice it isn&#8217;t always as easy<br \/>\nto use as you might wish (see <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicmuseum.org.uk\/2008\/07\/16\/openid-fail\/\">http:\/\/electronicmuseum.org.uk\/2008\/07\/16\/openid-fail\/<\/a> for a critique of OpenID)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note that several participants in the Learning 2.0 programme at Imperial have mentioned that dealing with all the additional accounts they are creating as they take part in the course (so far, MSN\/Windows Live, Wordpress, Wetpaint, Bloglines or Google Reader) Where services are offered by the Imperial ICT service one advantage is that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-learning-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}