Re: Blogger and Garden Blogs

**"* P* <k*@gmail.com>**

I never said I welcomed OpenID with open arms. I have seen the term bandied
about but never attempted reading up on it until today--and still feel
uninformed. I certainly don't have the same login and password for my
financial accounts, for just the reasons Doug cites. Most of the websites
with whom I am registered online don't have the importance of my financial
data, but if someone hacked into my OpenID, could they also hack into the
administration panel of my website? That *is* a scary thought.

I happen to have a Blogger ID, so this is a moot point for me at the moment,
but the whole concept of OpenID bears careful thought.

Kathy

On Dec 18, 2007 10:29 AM, Doug Green <dgreen@kos.net> wrote:

> 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
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> Blog http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
>
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