Archive of stories published by Sesamoidish

How (cookie) consent management works

This is episode six of the Great Cookie Conundrum series, and we’re getting down to business. We’ve seen a few good and bad implementations in previous posts, but if you looking at using a cookie control/management tool on your website, what do you need to look


Technologists and ethos

Recently Koven Smith blogged a thought-provoking article that he’d contributed to Museum about the seeming absence of ethical concerns from too many decisions about the use of technology in museums. “At museums”, he wrote, “technologists once built solutions largely from scratch; now…


Judgement day

In episode five of the Great Cookie Conundrum series I get opinionated. “Oh at last!” you cry. It’s a quick trip of a variety of bad


Giving back control

In the fourth post in the Great Cookie Conundrum series we’ll get explicit about what you need to do to make your site one of the good guys, and what’s more to make it legal.

In previous posts we looked at how the use of cookies and related tech is affected by GDPR…


This weekend’s Facebook scandal

(but it’s only Saturday)

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported on a number of apps (iOS and at least some on Android) that were passing very private data to Facebook. Not only the data of Facebook users either: personal data…

These were the top 10 stories published by Sesamoidish; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2019, 2022.

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Research, observations, and questions from Jeremy Ottevanger. I am a creative technologist consulting for heritage and related organisations as Sesamoid Consulting Ltd.
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