While on the bus, I thought up a new analogy that might help explain it a bit better. I hope.
It's kinda like delicious (http://www.delicious.com/). People link things they like, and, if they have their browser set up a certain way, everything they bookmark will show up on their delicious account.
Delicious doesn't host the content, but it has whatever information the account owner has included with it.
So, for example the "katemonkey" tag (http://www.delicious.com/tag/katemonkey) has links to my stories and a CSS-related article I wrote yoinks ago, but they're not on delicious. And I could change my links, but it wouldn't stop delicious from associating that link with my username.
Plus, if I produced anything new with my username, and someone were to tag it, there'd be nothing to stop them. If it was a password protected site, only a few people could see it, but it would still be listed on delicious as "katemonkey".
So last.fm is like that, but even less connected, because there isn't even the link from the last.fm information to the actual content. You could ask people to not scrobble, but part of the whole podfic thing, for me, is listening to it on my iPod (I mean, god, your longer podfics got me through a rather dull-as-hell temp job, for which I eternally thank you), and despite me constantly trying to make sure that podfic isn't scrobbled to my account, it does have a tendency to sneak in.
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Date: 2010-10-19 08:23 pm (UTC)It's kinda like delicious (http://www.delicious.com/). People link things they like, and, if they have their browser set up a certain way, everything they bookmark will show up on their delicious account.
Delicious doesn't host the content, but it has whatever information the account owner has included with it.
So, for example the "katemonkey" tag (http://www.delicious.com/tag/katemonkey) has links to my stories and a CSS-related article I wrote yoinks ago, but they're not on delicious. And I could change my links, but it wouldn't stop delicious from associating that link with my username.
Plus, if I produced anything new with my username, and someone were to tag it, there'd be nothing to stop them. If it was a password protected site, only a few people could see it, but it would still be listed on delicious as "katemonkey".
So last.fm is like that, but even less connected, because there isn't even the link from the last.fm information to the actual content. You could ask people to not scrobble, but part of the whole podfic thing, for me, is listening to it on my iPod (I mean, god, your longer podfics got me through a rather dull-as-hell temp job, for which I eternally thank you), and despite me constantly trying to make sure that podfic isn't scrobbled to my account, it does have a tendency to sneak in.
Um...I hope this helps.