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Category Archives: identity


on Facebook and Identity

Very interesting post appeared on the ABC news site titled ‘Lawyer uses Facebook to serve documents‘. A Canberra court has approved using Facebook as a way to serve documents. Apparently, the co-defendants have been hard to reach but there are Facebook accounts which list them as friends and has their birth dates. […]

I blog, therefore I am

Or perhaps that should be ‘I think, therefore I (can) blog’. Not perhaps an accurate use of Descartes’ method, but it would be interesting to see what great philosophers of earlier times would have made of ‘digital identities’ or the ‘digital self’.
Stephen Downes posts a really interesting article ‘My digital identity’ and relates aspects […]

.tel the world a little bit more about yourself

ok - so this is for those of you who just love having an online presence and don’t mind being quite public about how people can contact you.
In the next few months we are going to see the launch of a new Top Level Domain (TLD) called ‘.tel’. Unlike websites, this will be only […]

Take care when constructing your e-portfolio solution

At the recent e-portfolio symposium it was interesting to hear the range of opinions on how e-portfolio solutions should be constructed. We had the example of the experienced Web user who preferred to mash an e-portfolio together from existing web services (blogs, wikis, file and imaging services etc) whereas less experienced users preferred institutionally […]