Completing this week's task by making a small change to a Widipedia article gave me the opportunity to read their instructions and guidelines on editing. It was fascinating to see both the editing tools and how the site editors try to keep the multitude of those involved in some kind of order. For all its faults, they've done a pretty good job! I also feel that I've crossed some kind of boundary, having thought I would never ever edit a wikipedia article. It's getting a little confusing having so many usernames and passwords--every week a new incarnation. When will the IT world come up with a different way of establishing identify?
On a different note, having seen colleagues busily tweeting at the staff conference, I did revisit Twitter to look at some of their thoughts. Thanks!
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There have been various moves to create unified web identities/single sign-ins because of this very complaint! OpenID is the one that's gained most currency I think so far, along with sites that increasingly accept a variety of log-ins from elsewhere (eg Wetpaint which you can log into with your Facebook or Twitter or Windows Live ID). The problem at the moment though is that there's too many different providers who all want to give you a uniform log-in-to-everything, and I think there's a lot of concern by people that this is linking too much information about you together and is not so good for privacy. Maybe one day!
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