Customer Reviews:
Doing is better than reading.......2007-07-24
I purchased this book after visiting New Zealand. Specifically, the area where Rohan was set up. I would not have bought this book otherwise, but it became a nice companion when i wanted to remember the lay of the land and the challenges one only experiences in New Zealand. To get to this place, one must walk from a road, across a cow field, through 3 rivers (ice cold and too wide to jump, mind). So for me it was worth it. If you don't have an unusual love for the films or another big reason to get this book, you're probably wasting your money.
Nice, concise picture book.......2007-05-17
I bought this while in New Zealand, in Mt Cook Village.
Though My wife and I hadn't planned a "Lord of the Rings Tour", we did enjoy noting when our current stop was used as filming location.
I sympathize with both Mr Brodie and the reviewers wanting more maps.
While it may not have been his intent, it is called a "guidebook", and even a casual reader like myself would have appreciated more maps. But it doesn't detract from the fact that this is a fun book, with lots of vignettes and pictures.
Brilliant!.......2006-01-06
What a blast. We took the original edition on our tour two years ago and will be taking the extended edition this year. We also took a GPS with us and called our tour, "GPS to Mordor: there and back again," and dutifully listed the references we achieved in our trip diaries. Through unseasonal sleet and floods and snow we had more fun than anyone deserves hunting the references and squinting at the photos. "It's this tree. No No. It's that one." We went places we would never have dreamed of going otherwise, met fantastic people and saw astonishing country given a specific quality of discovery by finding the associations. Travels by quotation: "We're going to Rivendell to see the elves," was a particular triumph. The additional trivia of filming and background simply added pleasure to the reading at night while checking the next day's itinerary. Without being a textbook, we certainly found it got us where we wanted to go as close as we needed to get there (except for the parts of NZ that were under water at the time). Think of it as an invitation to get out of the house and go find your own adventures.
How I Found This Guidebook Useful.......2005-05-25
I've been on two trips to New Zealand and used the first guidebook on the first trip and the revised edition (after Two Towers) on the second trip. The revised edition was much improved over the original one. I visited probably 80%+ of the sites in the book between the two trips. The guidebooks give a lot of interesting trivia about filming LOTR and can certainly help you decide what to visit, how accessible it is and how to plan a route. As all have stated, the problem is that the directions get you sort of there, within a hundred meters if you're lucky, and the pictures are marginally helpful. On the second trip I brought a portable DVD player with the LOTR DVDs and I found the relevant scene in the film while I was at the location, so I could make a positive identification and not have to wonder if I was at the right rock or tree. It was particularly useful at Mavora Lakes, Poolburn and Whakapapa, for example, where so much of the scenery looks the same throughout the whole site. Otherwise, without the DVD, about the only thing to do when you get to Whakapapa using the guidebook is to just look around and know that it was used for the Mordor locations. With the DVD you can identify the exact spot where the opening title for Two Towers was filmed, among other venues. If you don't want to drag a DVD player with you, another option I would recommend is to print out screen caps from the films of those locations you really want to identify and take along a notebook filled with them. Either option is a must for identifying, for example, the Legolas rock at Deer Park Heights, particularly since the rock was flipped 180 in the film. Ian's book is a good start, but its utility will vary for each person depending on just how precise you want to be in saying "I was there."
That extra 10% would have made all the difference.......2005-03-25
I went to New Zealand with the book, hoping to see as many sites as I could. Everyone has the book, and everyone has the same comment - it gets you almost there. Almost just isn't good enough. But my first complaint is the scattered writing. Stick to the subject - the sites. One site is mentioned. Then a bunch of drivel, and suddenly you're reading about that site again, and this time it's different information. The book could have so much better organized. Why not put decent maps in a location guidebook? One example: we followed the written directions exactly and found ourselves at the park off Gemstone. Okay. So, where exactly along this park is the site? I searched for an hour for rock formations that matched the picture in the book and never found them. Same thing at "Rivendell". Got there, but what good is it if the exact sites are not given? We ended up going out again the next day on a tour, and told the tour guide about our trouble with the book. "Everyone says that," she said. "I see people out walking around with the book, trying to figure out the exact site. Finally they ask if they can follow me." Ian, you present this as being a location guide, and you got everyone to buy one. But I didn't go halfway around the world to get "almost" there. It needs better pictures, real maps, and better organization. Keep ALL the information about one site together, not spread here and there over several pages.
Give directions from the major city, not from the previous site. And I am still steaming over Legolas's rock at Deerpark Heights. The picture shows the VIEW from the rock instead of the rock itself. You know how many rocks are at the location? Why is the world didn't you put a picture of the rock in there so we could tell when we were in the right place? I appreciate the fact that someone even wrote a guidebook. That said, it should have been done 100%. I paid 100% of the price for it.
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With the help of The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook, thousands of fans worldwide have been able to follow Peter Jackson and the Fellowship as they experience the spectacular locations where the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was created.
In this unique diary, especially created to accompany Ian Brodie's best-selling guidebook series, travelers can re-create their own journey with diary entries, photographs and even a pressed flower from Ithilien or a leaf from Rivendell. Beautifully packaged, this is a must-have item for anyone wishing to preserve special memories and thoughts as they walk in Frodo's footsteps.
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The rise of network-based, automated services in the past decade has definitely changed the way businesses operate, but not always for the better. Offering services, conducting transactions and moving data on the Web opens new opportunities, but many CTOs and CIOs are more concerned with the risks. Like the rulers of medieval cities, they've adopted a siege mentality, building walls to keep the bad guys out. It makes for a secure perimeter, but hampers the flow of commerce.
Fortunately, some corporations are beginning to rethink how they provide security, so that interactions with customers, employees, partners, and suppliers will be richer and more flexible. Digital Identity explains how to go about it. This book details an important concept known as "identity management architecture" (IMA): a method to provide ample protection while giving good guys access to vital information and systems. In today's service-oriented economy, digital identity is everything. IMA is a coherent, enterprise-wide set of standards, policies, certifications and management activities that enable companies like yours to manage digital identity effectively--not just as a security check, but as a way to extend services and pinpoint the needs of customers.
Author Phil Windley likens IMA to good city planning. Cities define uses and design standards to ensure that buildings and city services are consistent and workable. Within that context, individual buildings--or system architectures--function as part of the overall plan. With Windley's experience as VP of product development for Excite@Home.com and CIO of Governor Michael Leavitt's administration in Utah, he provides a rich, real-world view of the concepts, issues, and technologies behind identity management architecture.
How does digital identity increase business opportunity? Windley's favorite example is the ATM machine. With ATMs, banks can now offer around-the-clock service, serve more customers simultaneously, and do it in a variety of new locations. This fascinating book shows CIOs, other IT professionals, product managers, and programmers how security planning can support business goals and opportunities, rather than holding them at bay.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book on Identity Management.......2007-07-26
Identity Management is my day to day job as our company heavily focuses on various IAM initiatives.I was always looking for a book that can give enough material on how to go about design, deploy IAM solutions. This book is the one for it. This book really deserves 5 stars.
Thanks,
Ramnath Krishnamurthi,
C.E.0
Like Minds Consulting Inc,
New York, U.S.A
Practical and Informative.......2007-06-26
A great book, cover to cover - and exceptionally well organized. The subject matter is covered in a methodical, clear manner, and is applicable to both the expert and the neophyte to IdM. I was very impressed by the practical nature of the book; the recommendations are actionable and easy to follow. This book may well be the definitive text on digital identity management. I highly recommended it!
high-level concepts but no practical guidance.......2007-03-22
This book gives a hello world introduction about digital identity concepts and nothing beyond. The book absolutely fails and falls short on explaning the identity management standards and technologies related to single sign-on, federation, provisioning and assurance. From a real-world IDMS deployment perspective the book is truly misleading !
Short but useful intro to identity management.......2007-01-05
This book is designed to familiarize CIOs, IT managers, and other IT professionals with the language, concepts, and technology of digital identity. Managing digital identity is one of the most fundamental activities in IT and a good identity management strategy is the key to not only protecting the enterprise from attack, but, more important, providing flexible access for partners, customers, and employees to needed information and systems.
This book is not a book with code examples and recipes for building digital identity management systems. Even so, it is a technical book that explains the technology of digital identity in some detail. More importantly, the book puts the technology in context and shows how it can all be put to the task of managing digital identities inside your organization.
The book is divided into three sections. The first section is about the core concepts in digital identity, including privacy and trust. The second section discusses the technology of digital identity. The third section portrays in some detail a process, called an identity management architecture (IMA), that you can use to build a digital identity infrastructure in your organization, regardless of its size or organization. The information in the last section is prescriptive in nature. Because of his experiences, the author has a clear philosophy on how to build an IMA. He therefore presents a rather detailed series of steps that show how to create an IMA and how to use it. I found the book quite accessible, and this isn't even an area of my expertise. I would recommend it for anyone trying to get started in the field, especially if you're a manager. The following is the table of contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Section 1.1. Business Opportunity
Section 1.2. Digital Identity Matters
Section 1.3. Using Digital Identity
Section 1.4. The Business Context of Identity
Section 1.5. Foundational Technologies for Digital Identity
Section 1.6. Identity Management Architectures
Chapter 2. Defining Digital Identity
Section 2.1. The Language of Digital Identity
Section 2.2. Identity Scenarios in the Physical World
Section 2.3. Identity, Security, and Privacy
Section 2.4. Digital Identity Perspectives
Section 2.5. Identity Powershifts
Section 2.6. Conclusion
Chapter 3. Trust
Section 3.1. What Is Trust?
Section 3.2. Trust and Evidence
Section 3.3. Trust and Risk
Section 3.4. Reputation and Trust Communities
Section 3.5. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Privacy and Identity
Section 4.1. Who's Afraid of RFID?
Section 4.2. Privacy Pragmatism
Section 4.3. Privacy Drivers
Section 4.4. Privacy Audits
Section 4.5. Privacy Policy Capitalism
Section 4.6. Anonymity and Pseudonymity
Section 4.7. Privacy Principles
Section 4.8. Prerequisites
Section 4.9. Conclusion
Chapter 5. The Digital Identity Lifecycle
Section 5.1. Provisioning
Section 5.2. Propagating
Section 5.3. Using
Section 5.4. Maintaining
Section 5.5. Deprovisioning
Section 5.6. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Integrity, Non-Repudiation, and Confidentiality
Section 6.1. Integrity
Section 6.2. Non-Repudiation
Section 6.3. Confidentiality
Section 6.4. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Authentication
Section 7.1. Authentication and Trust
Section 7.2. Authentication Systems
Section 7.3. Authentication System Properties
Section 7.4. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Access Control
Section 8.1. Policy First
Section 8.2. Authorization Patterns
Section 8.3. Abstract Authorization Architectures
Section 8.4. Digital Certificates and Access Control
Section 8.5. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Names and Directories
Section 9.1. Utah.gov: Naming and Directories
Section 9.2. Naming
Section 9.3. Directories
Section 9.4. Aggregating Directory Information
Section 9.5. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Digital Rights Management
Section 10.1. Digital Leakage
Section 10.2. The DRM Battle
Section 10.3. Apple iTunes: A Case Study in DRM
Section 10.4. Features of DRM
Section 10.5. DRM Reference Architecture
Section 10.6. Trusted Computing Platforms
Section 10.7. Specifying Rights
Section 10.8. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Interoperability Standards
Section 11.1. Standards and the Digital Identity Lifecycle
Section 11.2. Integrity and Non-Repudiation: XML Signature
Section 11.3. Confidentiality: XML Encryption
Section 11.4. Authentication and Authorization Assertions
Section 11.5. Example SAML Use Cases
Section 11.6. Identity Provisioning
Section 11.7. Representing and Managing Authorization Policies
Section 11.8. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Federating Identity
Section 12.1. Centralized Versus Federated Identity
Section 12.2. The Mirage of Centralized Efficiency
Section 12.3. Network Effects and Digital Identity Management
Section 12.4. Federation in the Credit Card Industry
Section 12.5. Benefits of Federated Identity
Section 12.6. Digital Identity Standards
Section 12.7. Three Federation Patterns
Section 12.8. Conclusion
Chapter 13. An Architecture for Digital Identity
Section 13.1. Identity Management Architecture
Section 13.2. The Benefits of an Identity Management Architecture
Section 13.3. Success Factors
Section 13.4. Roadblocks
Section 13.5. Identity Management Architecture Components
Section 13.6. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Governance and Business Modeling
Section 14.1. IMA Lifecycle
Section 14.2. IMA Governance Model
Section 14.3. Initial Steps
Section 14.4. Creating a Vision
Section 14.5. IMA Governing Roles
Section 14.6. Resources
Section 14.7. What to Outsource
Section 14.8. Understanding the Business Context
Section 14.9. Business Function Matrix
Section 14.10. IMA Principles
Section 14.11. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Identity Maturity Models and Process Architectures
Section 15.1. Maturity Levels
Section 15.2. The Maturity Model
Section 15.3. The Rights Steps at the Right Time
Section 15.4. Finding Identity Processes
Section 15.5. Evaluating Processes
Section 15.6. A Practical Action Plan
Section 15.7. Filling the Gaps with Best Practices
Section 15.8. Conclusion
Chapter 16. Identity Data Architectures
Section 16.1. Build a Data Architecture
Section 16.2. Processes Link Identities
Section 16.3. Data Categorization
Section 16.4. Identity Data Structure and Metadata
Section 16.5. Exchanging Identity Data
Section 16.6. Principles for Identity Data
Section 16.7. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Interoperability Frameworks for Identity
Section 17.1. Principles of a Good IF
Section 17.2. Contents of an Identity IF
Section 17.3. Example Interoperability Framework
Section 17.4. A Word of Warning
Section 17.5. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Identity Policies
Section 18.1. The Policy Stack
Section 18.2. Attributes of a Good Identity Policy
Section 18.3. Determining Policy Needs
Section 18.4. Writing Identity Policies
Section 18.5. An Identity Policy Suite
Section 18.6. Assessing Identity Policies
Section 18.7. Enforcement
Section 18.8. Procedures
Section 18.9. Conclusion
Chapter 19. Identity Management Reference Architectures
Section 19.1. Reference Architectures
Section 19.2. Benefits and Pitfalls
Section 19.3. Reference Architecture Best Practices
Section 19.4. Using a Reference Architecture
Section 19.5. Components of a Reference Architecture
Section 19.6. Technical Position Statements
Section 19.7. Consolidated Infrastructure Blueprint
Section 19.8. System Reference Architectures
Section 19.9. Conclusion
Chapter 20. Building an Identity Management Architecture
Section 20.1. Scoping the Process
Section 20.2. Which Projects Are Enterprise Projects?
Section 20.3. Sequencing the IMA Effort
Section 20.4. A Piece at a Time
Section 20.5. Conclusion: Dispelling IMA Myths
Clear and comprehensive.......2006-11-25
Ever noticed how many of the most useful books are really short? Kernighan and Ritchie on C Programming and Kent Beck on Extreme Programming come to mind, well now we have a short, to the point, and similarly useful book on identity Phil Windley's book, "Digital Identity". Increased integration, security concerns, distributed computing, SOA and Web Services, privacy issues, crimeware/malware, and compliance all conspire to make identity a mission critical element in software architecture. Many of the key concerns get conflated and confused amidst the buzzwords and arcane terminology used by the identerati. What is needed is conceptual clarity about the key elements in identity management architecture, and how they relate to each other as well as the software platform and its users.
Phil Windley's book, "Digital Identity" delivers the needed clarity, breaking down identity management architecture into Process Architecture ("how your business accomplishes identity related tasks and how they should be accomplished in the future."), Data Architecture ("The data architecture is a model of the identity data in your organization"), and Technical Reference Architecture ("how the IMA communicates implementation guidance to system architects"). None of these architectural elements are a vendor-specific solution, so architecture is required to design the correct approach for your organization. Windley describes two important parts of an IMA - Policies ("crucial in creating identity infrastructures that work for the simple reason that it's impossible to create technical solutions to every problem.") and Interoperability Framework ("list of standards that your organization has chosen to support and use."). The supporting website contains useful policy templates for a wide variety of identity policy domains.
The early chapters deal with setting a consistent terminology for identity data and processes. Chapter 5 defines an identity lifecycle including two helpful in the trenches observations 1) that identity maintenance is one of the most costly areas and 2) deprovisioning is just as important as the notion of provisioning. Chapter 6 talks about cryptosystems, message digests, hashing, and related infrastructure (such as PKI) the part I found most useful is that Windley shows what solutions deliver particular properties such as confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation.
Refreshing discussion in Chapter 8 on Access Control and Principle of least privilege in the real world. Many security policies blithely state (and restate) the principle of least privilege, but in reality when it is assumed but in place this creates an issue. This chapter also has a good RBAC discussion. Chapter 9 draws important distinctions between directory services and relational databases, and gives prescriptive guidance on where each is appropriate. Chapter 9 also introduces the notion of metadirectories and virtual directories. Again, these concepts are mapped directly by Windley to the specific issues they solve, making the book a very handy design partner for identity management architects.
Chapter 11 correlates standards to the identity lifecycle. SPML is geared towards provisioning, propagating, and deprovisioning; SAML is geared towards using identity; and XACML is geared towards maintaing identity (I am not sure why XACML is not included in using identity though). The power and challenges of SAML and XACML are well defined, some additional examples would be helpful. For traditional information security people who need to understand how these important XML-based technologies work in decentralized SOA and Web Services systems, this chapter will be very helpful.
Chapter 12 on federating identity is my favorite. "Mirage of centralized efficiency...Centralized digital identity systems do not scale. Identity relationships are inherently web-like in structure while centralized technologies like directories are hierarchical." Windley also points out lack of privacy support in SAML (which is why Dick Hardt calls federation Identity 1.5). The latter chapters show example identity data architectures, technical reference architecture, and other elements. In sum, this book is extremely useful at the conceptual level for identity architects to think/plan/act strategically and real world in the trenches advice on how to execute tactically.
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Marketing in the early 21st century is dominated by two approaches, neither of which is visible to the naked eye: the use of data to define and shape human affairs into machine-readable form and the effort to create and sustain ongoing two-way relationships with customers. The former is one way human life is being subjugated to the regime of the machine; the latter is one way the individual may one day emerge from within the datascape. A post-modern perspective is used to reveal both the "kaleidoroscope" of data and the "raw immaterials" of relationships in two companion essays.
Customer Reviews:
Rebecca Nailed It.......2007-03-18
Rebecca's review is spot-on. I could read this book several times and get something new out of it each time. Ellis succinctly captures the changes in consumer-marketer interaction and the new 21st century value exchange and does a great job of putting it in historical and philosophical context.
Big Thoughts on Marketing .......2007-03-09
Most books on business (particularly those by self-proclaimed "gurus") seize on a single idea. With terrier-like tenacity they explain it, illustrate it, present case studies of it, then explain it yet again, until a readers feels she's entered some sort of textual version of "Groundhog's Day."
"Marketing in the In-Between," takes the opposite approach. It packs so many clusters of thought, ideas, revelations and connections on every page, the reader will need to repeatedly dip in to glean all the thoughts. It challenges readers to truly ponder and to question the basic precepts and practices upon which marketing is based.
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