Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-6-2009

[andrewducker]

• Feminist books for five-year-olds
  (tags: books feminism children parenting gender)
• How to set up OpenID delegation
  Which allows you to use any URL under your control as an OpenID.
  (tags: openid identity delegation internet)
• A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles
  Nice presentation.
  (tags: games history complexity mathematics science computer fun presentation babbage)
• Google Books And Kindles: A Concentration Camp Of Ideas
  The most impressive self-godwination I've seen in quite some time.
  (tags: hitler kindle ebooks technology EpicFail)

Comments

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

I think the essay at that last link does raise some interesting points. With music, we have seen a shift from buying physical recordings to downloading digital recordings to streaming digital recordings. If services such as Spotify and last.fm really are the way ahead then we will be in a world where we know who (or at least which IP address) has listened to what and how many times.

Two of our research streams at work are focusing on privacy and data protection in the Cloud and ownership of provider-generated data in the Cloud. This is an interesting intersection of the two; as we shift towards a delivery model where content is pulled from the Cloud on-demand, we open ourselves up to enormous potential surveillance of our reading and listening habits.

[andrewducker]

Oh, I totally agree that there are issues to be aware of. It was just made in the worst possible manner.

When it comes to cloud services I'm more worried by the idea that music would just vanish (when the rights are moved from one place to another) than people knowing what I listen to. After all, if you want to know that then you can just wander to http://www.last.fm/user/andrewducker

[jinxremoving.livejournal.com]

Self-Godwination! What an excellent phrase. Is it yours or did you get it from somewhere else? Because I think I'm about to work it into a review.

[andrewducker]

Well, the only other use of it I can find with a quick google is on the Linux Kernel mailing list from 2006. And I didn't read it there. So I guess I came up with it!

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Kindles -- most extravagant application of Godwin's law I've seen yet!

Awesome article -- long read but very good punchline!