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ownyouridentity.com is a blog about owning your online identity in a world with an increasing amount of software that wants to own it for you.

在第九版中，Babbie作了两个引人注目的调整。首先，在“质化实地研究”（Qualitative Field Research，即第十章）一章中，对有关质化研究的几种主要思潮或方法，包括自然主义（naturalism），人类学方法（ethnomethodology），扎根理论（grounded theory），个案研究（case study）和扩展个案研究（extended case methods），制度人类学（institutional ethnography），参与研究（participatory action research）等等，作了着力介绍，并配以精心挑选的具体实例。其次，第九版专门增加了一章“质化数据分析”（Qualitative Data Analysis），对卓有特色的几种主要的质化数据处理方法，结合具体的质化研究方法，作了详细介绍。虽然现在SPSS（Statistical Package for the Social Sciences）数据处理软件已经广泛应用于各种量化研究中，但在质化研究领域，计算机辅助数据分析软件的开发和使用却仍处于起步阶段。在这一章，Babbie结合实例介绍了一个近年比较流行的质化数据处理软件NUD*IST。

社会研究最重要的特点，也许在于研究主体和研究对象的能动性及其动态互动。

社会研究是一种严肃而竞争激烈的学术生涯，研究者不仅要对社会负责，也要对自身负责——确信自己所从事的研究，是可信而有意义的；同时，研究者更要接受近乎残酷的同行评议。所有这一切，离不开研究者在研究方法方面的基本修养。

OAuth and OpenID OAuth is not an OpenID extension and at the specification level, shares only few things with OpenID – some common authors and the fact both are open specification in the realm of authentication and access control. ‘Why OAuth is not an OpenID extension?’ is probably the most frequently asked question in the group. The answer is simple, OAuth attempts to provide a standard way for developers to offer their services via an API without forcing their users to expose their passwords (and other credentials). If OAuth depended on OpenID, only OpenID services would be able to use it, and while OpenID is great, there are many applications where it is not suitable or desired. Which doesn’t mean to say you cannot use the two together. OAuth talks about getting users to grant access while OpenID talks about making sure the users are really who they say they are. They should work great together.

Is OAuth a New Concept? No. OAuth is the standardization and combined wisdom of many well established industry protocols. It is similar to other protocols currently in use (Google AuthSub, AOL OpenAuth, Yahoo BBAuth, Upcoming API, Flickr API, Amazon Web Services API, etc). Each protocol provides a proprietary method for exchanging user credentials for an access token or ticker. OAuth was created by carefully studying each of these protocols and extracting the best practices and commonality that will allow new implementations as well as a smooth transition for existing services to support OAuth. An area where OAuth is more evolved than some of the other protocols and services is its direct handling of non-website services. OAuth has built in support for desktop applications, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and of course websites. Many of the protocols today use a shared secret hardcoded into your software to communicate, something which pose an issue when the service trying to access your private data is open source.