Re: Blogger and Garden Blogs

**D* G* <d*@kos.net>**

On 12/18/07 9:24 AM, "Kathy Purdy" <kopurdy@gmail.com> wrote:

 In the comments of Doug's blog
> post that he referenced above, someone refers to the same announcement from
> Blogger that you do. Doug doesn't sound like he approves of OpenID. I
> haven't made up my mind, but it does seem that having one registration for a
> whole bunch of sites, while convenient, brings up the same security risks as
> having one login for all your banking and credit card accounts. If that's
> considered a bad idea, why is it a good idea for OpenID?
> 
> Kathy

Kathy writes about blogging so much clearly than I do.  Let me respond to
her note, "Doug doesn't sound like he approves of OpenID."

Doug is probably a curmudgeon.  He doesn't like centralized repositories of
data that are collected to "help" him.  He understand that banks,
governments, search engines, and companies he deals with have already lost
or shared his data somewhere/somehow over the Internet and has been given
new credit cards, alerts on his records etc. as have millions of other North
Americans (ever shop at Winners or their associated companies?)  He
understands there's no privacy on the Net anymore particularly now that he
owns and operates 9 websites and makes his living as an Internet publisher.
He probably even contributes to this data drift in some way yet unknown. ;-)

I watched a TED video on this subject and remain unconvinced that I want it
but firmly aware that my individual feelings have absolutely no impact on
the situation. So my advice to me is "get over it". :-)

As I said - "curmudgeon".

As for having your blog on other than a self-hosted URL - to each his own.
I simply prefer to put my energies into building my own brand rather than
that of Blogger or Typepad.  But your objectives and reasons for writing may
differ. 

>From somewhere out on a foggy Lake Ontario

Doug
-- 
Doug Green
Ist in Online Gardening Publishing
Homesite http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
Blog http://blog.douggreensgarden.com

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