Tiffany B. Brown » anil dash http://tiffanybbrown.com A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff. Wed, 23 May 2012 16:23:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Trusting Anil Dash not to f*ck up my site with evil JavaScript http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/03/14/trusting-anil-dash-not-to-fck-up-my-site-with-evil-javascript/ http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/03/14/trusting-anil-dash-not-to-fck-up-my-site-with-evil-javascript/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:17:03 +0000 tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/03/14/trusting-anil-dash-not-to-fck-up-my-site-with-evil-javascript/ Below is a snippet of an entry from Anil Dash‘s blog on the possibilities of using embed, object and JavaScript for serving all kinds of content — not just movies.

The obvious question is ‘How much should you trust code from strangers?’ And can this be done in a safe(-ish), secure(-ish) way?

Possibly related: Cross-domain Ajax links and Access Control for Cross-site Requests (implemented in Firefox 3)

]]> http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/03/14/trusting-anil-dash-not-to-fck-up-my-site-with-evil-javascript/feed/ 4 Recommended: Anil Dash’s ‘Google and Theory of Mind’ http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/12/14/recommended-anil-dashs-google-and-theory-of-mind/ http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/12/14/recommended-anil-dashs-google-and-theory-of-mind/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:04:13 +0000 tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/2007/12/14/recommended-anil-dashs-google-and-theory-of-mind/ Anil analyzes Google’s Knol product and suggests that Google may be dancing awfully close to the ‘evil’ line.

Two points to think about:

Theory of mind is the awareness that others are aware, and its absence is the weakness that Google doesn’t know it has. This shortcoming exists at a deep cultural level within the organization, and it keeps manifesting itself in the decisions that the company makes about its products and services. The flaw is one that is perpetuated by insularity, and will only be remedied by becoming more open to outside ideas and more aware of how people outside the company think, work and live.

And:

An awareness of how a transformation in the fundamental value of links from informational to economic could have led Google to develop a system that separated editorial and aesthetic choices from economic ones, preventing the eventual link-spam arms race.

Also of note today (with some stuff from yesterday):

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