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Seth's Blog -- Trading favors

'Now that everyone has a media platform, look for even more of the mutual back scratching that comes from tracking favors. Humans have a natural openness to reciprocity. It's a time-honored survival technique, one that allowed us to live together in villages for millenia. Someone who doesn't reciprocate is less likely to be protected by his peers, right? Not only have we been taught reciprocation since birth, but it feels right. It's baked in. The problem occurs when the trading of favors become mercenary, when alert individuals start manipulating the system for personal gain. Suddenly, every favor is suspect, measured and not at all generous. Suddenly all the likes and links and blurbs become nothing but currency, not the honest appraisals of people we can trust. It means that bystanders have trouble telling the difference between honest approval and the mere mutual shilling of traded favors.'

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january 2012 by adamcrowe

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Fast Company -- To Motivate Students, Make Them Give Away Their Rewards

'Stephanie Clifford, reporting for The New York Times, described how the incentive system works at Pret: "When employees are promoted or pass training milestones, they receive at least £50 in vouchers, a payment that Pret calls a 'shooting star,' but instead of keeping the bonus, the employees must give the money to colleagues, people who have helped them along the way." To install Pret's incentive system in the academy would be to blow it up. What if when students got gold stars on ClassDojo they didn't keep them, but rather gave them out to other students who helped them along the way? No longer would students be motivated solely to perform the best--they would be motivated to help their classmates. This motivational system is the beginning of community-directed learning.' -- Marksism

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january 2012 by adamcrowe

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Seth's Blog -- Trustiness

'Trust is built when no one is looking, when you think you have the option of cutting corners and when you find a loophole. Trustiness is what happens when you use trust as a PR tool. The difference should be obvious. Trust experienced is remarkable, trustiness once discovered leaves a bad taste for even your most valued customers. The perverse irony is this: the more you work on your trustiness, the harder you fall once people discover that they were tricked.'

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december 2011 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Generation Sell

'...we’re all in showbiz now, walking on eggshells, relentlessly tending our customer base. We use social media to create a product — to create a brand — and the product is us. We treat ourselves like little businesses, something to be managed and promoted. The self today is an entrepreneurial self, a self that’s packaged to be sold. -- ...movements always have an economic substrate. The beatniks and hippies — love, ecstasy, transcendence, utopia — were products of the postwar boom. The punks and slackers and devotees of hip-hop — rage, angst, nihilism, withdrawal — arose within the long stagnation that lasted from the early ’70s to the early ’90s. The hipsters were born in the dot-com boom and flourished in the real estate bubble. Affability is a commercial virtue, but it is also the affect of people who feel themselves to be living in a fundamentally agreeable society.'

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november 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- NMAWorldEdition: Facebook user sued for liking a thread

'Is it possible to get sued by thumbing a Facebook thread? When a former employee of a shoe store complained the store owner owed them money on Facebook, users who responded or liked the thread got were sued by the owner.'

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october 2011 by adamcrowe

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Toward A Private Digital Economy: Trusted transactions in an anonymous world

'#Trust as Currency: Consider this example: Condie, who has no rep good or bad, posts a $1,050 escrow bond. The bondsman mints $1,000 worth of “trust Condie” coins and exchanges them for Condie's money. Condie then offers to paint your house for $100. You agree on terms and chop a contract. She gives you a $100 “Trust Condie” coin to back up her commitment of “satisfaction guaranteed for 30 days or your money back”. If Condie does good work you pay her. A month later you return her coin. If she spills paint on your driveway you redeem the coin from the bondsman with a copy of the contract and a photo. The coin is your proof that Condie is bonded and has not overextended her bond. Likewise she can redeem them all herself at any time for her deposit less fee. This works because the currency is specific to the trustee. It's not the same as Condie giving you a $100 coin of more broadly negotiable currency. You can only redeem it from the bondsman and only with evidence of misconduct.''

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september 2011 by adamcrowe

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danah boyd | apophenia -- Guilt Through Algorithmic Association

'You’re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you’re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google queries likes “is Mohammad Abdullah a terrorist?” and “Mohammad Abdullah al Qaeda.” Google’s search engine learns. All of a sudden, auto-complete starts suggesting terms like “Al Qaeda” as the next term in relation to your name. It’s one thing to be slandered by another person on a website, on a blog, in comments. It’s another to have your reputation slandered by computer algorithms. What are the consequences of guilt through algorithmic association? What are the correction mechanisms? Who is accountable? What can or should be done?'

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september 2011 by adamcrowe

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Miiu.org -- Personal currencies using Augmented Reality on cell phones

'When a conversation with another person led to a decision to explore a transaction of time-based services, an Augmented Reality app or mashup for personal currency exchange would make the related profile information from both parties mutually visible. Each popup profile could include links to a trusted third party site where one can review or drill into summaries of prior work done and explore feedback ratings earned from past services.'

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august 2011 by adamcrowe

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Eli Dourado -- What Would Stateless Internet Courts Be Like?

'As Schelling says, the right to be sued is the power to make a promise. Since a private internet court must attract business without the machinery of the state, most of its rulings would need to be public. It would want to develop a reputation as a truth- and fairness-seeking body. Its opinions would need to be clear, well-reasoned, and principled. Past rulings would serve effectively as advertisements to bring in future business. It could occasionally offer secret proceedings if both parties publicly agreed to be bound by them, but in equilibrium, these would cost more since they could not be used as advertisements. Courts will compete on fees and reputation for fairness. This will generate a search for efficient rules of civil procedure... Since the enforcement mechanism relies entirely on reputation, and firms can always “declare bankruptcy” on their reputation and start over, the cases that will be brought will be relatively small, at least at first.'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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Rands In Repose -- Gaming the System

'A violation of the rules is an affront to a geek. They react violently to violations of the rules because it’s an indication that the system is not working. Rules make a game fair, and when they stop being followed, the geeks stop playing. -- ...there’s a well-defined process by which we consume a game, and it goes like this: #Discovery #Optimization, Repetition, and Win #Achievement -- I grabbed a handful of dry erase pens and rolled the board into the architect’s office and said, “This is all we’re working on”. He stared at the board for 10 minutes and finally nodded, “Good, but each person needs their own color and you should assign points for each of the boxes. 10 points for root cause and fix identification, 5 for fixes and tests.” “Points for what?” “Points for points. We’re geeks.” “And everyone has their own color?” “Yeah, so we know who has the most points. Give me a blue pen, I’ve already got root cause on bug #3.” “Blue?” “Yeah, I’m always blue.”'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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MozillaWiki -- Badges

'Our system will make it easy for education providers, web sites and other organizations to issue badges that give public recognition and validation for specific skills and achievements. And provide an easy way for learners to manage and display those badges across the web -- on their personal web site or resume, social networking profiles, job sites or just about anywhere. The result: Open Badges will help learners everywhere unlock career and educational opportunities, and regonize skills that traditional resumes and transcripts often leave out.'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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Man From The Future Shares His Story

'So there are no police, only private security guards. There are no “laws” per-say, but most people deal with trade disputes through private “loser pays” arbitration courts. So contracts between organizations and people define what the “law” is. Private insurance companies basically deal with private property protection in the future, just as they do today. So most people subscribe to an insurance contract which indirectly funds their local security and fire\emergency protection services. Engaging in a crime voids your insurance protections, which typically doesn’t end well for the criminal. Since victims don’t like paying to put their assailants behind bars, the prison industry evaporated. This left justice to be dealt with at the individual and neighborhood level. It is important to note that reputation plays a massive role in your future society. People don’t rob or harm others because a bad reputation can force you into total poverty.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Guanxi

'...guanxi describes a personal connection between two people in which one is able to prevail upon another to perform a favor or service, or be prevailed upon. The two people need not be of equal social status. Someone is described as having good guanxi if their particular network of influence could assist in the resolution of the problem currently being spoken about. ...guanxi can describe a state of general understanding between two people: "he/she is aware of my wants/needs and will take them into account when deciding her/his course of future actions which concern or could concern me without any specific discussion or request". It is custom for Chinese people to cultivate an intricate web of guanxi relationships, which may expand in a huge number of directions, and includes lifelong relationships. Reciprocal favors are the key factor to maintaining one’s guanxi web, failure to reciprocate is considered an unforgivable offense. The more you ask of someone the more you owe them.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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GCiS -- China Characteristics: Regarding Guanxi

'Guanxi operates as essentially a private favor exchange. If I can organize a chain of value exchange among my web threads that results in getting something that I want, then I can execute a Guanxi transaction (or chain transaction). The system is lubricated by the concept of a Guanxi Debt. I can utilize the system for short-term needs certainly, and that is a very common aspect of the system. But I can also incur or accrue Guanxi that (if managed wisely) can be utilized for larger purposes at a later time. Naturally, such favors often have financial components. Even the outright sale of Guanxi is common. ...Guanxi is like your brain, or your muscles. It must be used in order to grow strong or stay sharp. Since everybody is operating within the same system, if I develop some particularly important Guanxi thread, but then don’t use it, I will lose it. This is because the Guanxi thread is established by mutual agreement. The opposite party has also made his or her calculations...'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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Bitcoin: Contracts

'A distributed contract is a method of using Bitcoin to form agreements with people, anonymously and without the need for trust. -- Every transaction can have a lock time associated with it. This allows the transaction to be pending and replaceable until an agreed upon future time, specified either as a block index or as a timestamp.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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CoinHandle -- A Personalized handle for your Bitcoin address

'It just makes telling people your Bitcoin address easier, and lets you update your Bitcoin address without having to tell everyone.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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Ribbonfarm -- Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora

'...status shifts generally occur in response to truly new information being injected, and Q&A models are optimized to draw new information in. By contrast, neither Facebook or Twitter is designed for that. Your status on those services is dominated by the accumulated, average status of your recent past, and no one action can move that much. It takes a tweet or wall post of extreme stupidity to damage your credibility on Twitter or Facebook. And you cannot build Q&A effectively into either because the accumulated status would be eroded by the acid effects of unbridled Q&A, unless moderated deliberately. New information can and does enter these systems, but it is strongly filtered by a confirmation bias, either by individuals or groups. Q&A is a fundamental interaction, marked by high, but localized status volatility, and the dominance of current, situational status over aggregate, accumulated status. -- ...questions need to be owned by the community, but answers by the individual.'

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- The Power of Mockery

'A crucial lesson, he said, is the power of nonviolence: “If somebody is beating you, don’t attack him. Don’t use any violence against them. Just take photos of them and put them on the Internet.”' -- Everyday anarchy

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Inside Facebook -- Reppler Scans Your Facebook Profile for Objectionable Content and Security Risks

'Reppler is a new online reputation management tool that scans a user’s Facebook profile for objectionable content, privacy leaks, and security threats. The free tool can help users, especially young adults in the job market, ensure that their Facebook profiles don’t jeopardize their future prospects. When users visit the Reppler site, they’re asked for long list of extended permissions. Once granted users must wait a few minutes for their data to be analyzed before seeing the results in four different sections: My Impression, My Inappropriate Content, My Information, and My Privacy and Security Risks. They can also connect their YouTube, Flickr and Picasa account for scanning. While Reppler can’t provide total assurance for one’s reputation yet, it can offer users a reality check of their safety, security and the impression their profile can give.' -- I've seen slave ships off the shores of Orion fire blazin'. (El-P)

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Inside Facebook -- Reppler Scans Your Facebook Profile for Objectionable Content and Security Risks

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Scribd -- Proximity: Social Super Ego

Digital Maslow: '#5 INFLUENCING: The need to be acknowledged and referred to as a unique personality with talent, opinion or expertise. Maximizing your online presence through branding yourself. #4 MONITORING: The need to asses reactions and relevance to improve global online reputation. Assessing influence score, Googling yourself. #3 BROADCASTING: The need to perform to feel accepted and appreciated by online communities. Showing both who we are and what we stand for [using social objects]. #2 CONFIDENTIALITY: The need to feel in control of one’s identity, personal data and information. Managing how one’s image and reputation is displayed by others in pictures, conversations, updates. #1 ACCESSIBILITY: The need to acquire the basic set of skills and markers, indispensable to start existing and interacting in the digital realm. Submitting to networks, picking a screen name and an avatar, learning the language and etiquette of a specific platform.'

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Welcome to the Metacurrency Project

'We will not have an equitable nor a healthy economy in an information age, until we have information technology which empowers us equitably -- that is decentralized, peer-to-peer and operates by mutual agreement. We are building those technology tools, protocols and platforms. To fully meet our criteria, people need to be able to transact directly with each other with no segment of that interaction relying on a centrally controlled system. #Non-centralized rules (like the rules for money today) #Non-centralized database (as 99.99% are today) #Non-centralized namespace (like DNS) #Non-centralized address space (like IPv4 or IPv6) #Agreements are made by mutual consent #All levels of participation are sovereign -- Currency: a formal system used to shape, enable or measure currents. "If we measure different flows, we start behaving differently."'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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Be Slightly Evil -- The Art of Damage Control

'Damage control means predicting the unmanaged course of events, desigining interventions to minimize fallout, and optimally distributing the residual impact among all exposed parties. This means trading off impact on trust, credibility, and future opportunities. It means salvaging material assets. And yes: it means deciding how foolish you can afford to look. Looking foolish is serious business. Reputations take a long time to establish and minutes to lose. A basic truth about risk management is that old saw, "success has many parents, while failure is an orphan." If there's a win, you fight for as much of a share as you can (for yourself, or for a broader group whose interests you represent). If there's a failure, you rush to dissipate consequences as widely and as far away from yourself as possible. ... (there is rarely anyone who is truly innocent; every stakeholder is complicit in a failure to some extent).'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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Direct Reference -- The Display Aspect of Social Functionality

'...social functionality operate within a space defined by the following three dimensions. #Knowledge: We use this stuff to learn. Specifically, we use it to learn from each other. For example, user reviews or Wikipedia. #Connection: We use this stuff to communicate, bond, meet, define affiliations and dislikes or just hang out where the people are. For example, friending... #Display: We use this stuff to communicate and manage presentations of ourselves, truthfully or not, to others. For example, user profiles or Flickr. No piece of social functionality is all one and none of the others, but they tend to be weighted differently in each case. Display often motivates contributions (and impacts the type of contributions) made via Knowledge and Connection functionality. ...it's crucially important for motivating contribution and can actually stabilize and help self-regulate systems of social functionality. ...the three Display dimensions: Status, Reputation and Esteem – form a continuum.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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Shareable -- Changing Models of Ownership: Part I

'Chart: #The trade-off of ownership for access. Despite the infinite diversity of the human race, we’re actually quite similar in the kind of things we want to achieve on a day-to-day basis and, collectively, we’re beginning to realize that there’s little reason not to share the resources necessary to achieve these goals. With increased connectivity through modern technology, networks at both a global and local level are growing rapidly whilst new communities can develop and flourish through digital channels. These, in turn, allow for resources to be shared, swapped, borrowed, and traded while providing a platform where exclusive belongings are simply irrelevant. Effectively, access to the products or the means to achieve a specific goal has become good enough in these circumstances and a viable and appealing antidote to individual ownership. -- ...elements of trust and reputation become crucial to transactions between nodes...'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Sudan Dictator: I’ll Use Facebook to Crush Opposition!

'Bashir isn’t the only dictator to embrace social media so it doesn’t strangle him. Today, Syria’s Bashir al-Assad reversed a four-year ban on Facebook and YouTube. These might be hollow efforts to show online activists that they’re not fearful of losing power, but they’ll still have the effect of expanding access to technologies that regional reformers are using to stir unrest.' -- There is Like and there is not Unlike.

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Rentalship Is The New Ownership in the Networked Age

'What matters in the new era is not your physical wealth, but your reputation. As long as you’ve built up a rep for trustworthiness, there’s no reason you can’t benefit from access to a wealth of products and services when you need them. The trend isn’t entirely new — we’ve had toy libraries since the 1930s...'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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confused of calcutta -- The new new telco

'New new telcos provided multimedia services across multiple types of device using multiple modalities of communication. And they did everything “over the top”. No infrastructure costs. No on-premise software. And to top it all new new telcos had new new assets, information about relationships and flows. What Facebook call the Friend Graph. -- ...businesses used to be hierarchies of business units whose assets were called customers and products; that they are changing into networks of business units whose assets were called relationships and capabilities. New new assets. Relationships and capabilities. Social capital. Human capital. Assets we have carefully avoided learning how to value. Assets we have refused to value, however much we speak of the importance of talent and knowledge and collaboration. That’s where the new new value is. All just in time for a generation who have rediscovered community.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- GoogleTechTalks: Building Web Reputation Systems

'Reputation is identity.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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USATODAY.com -- Hello, Big Brother: Digital sensors are watching us

'...a stranger in a mall or restaurant could photograph you, then go online to profile you. "People will be able to instantaneously find out about you," Calo says. Still, in a world of pervasive sensors, troubling data correlations are cropping up in unanticipated ways. For instance, most consumers are ignorant about how smartphones equipped with GPS location finders routinely "geotag" photos and videos, embedding images with the longitude and latitude of the location shown in the image. Last summer, industrial designer Adam Savage, co-host of the TV show MythBusters, used his iPhone to snap a photo of his Toyota Land Cruiser parked in front of his house, then posted it on Twitter. In doing so, Savage, in effect, publicly disclosed where he lives.

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Reputation system

'The role of reputation systems is to facilitate trust by making reputation more visible. Reputation systems may also be coupled with an incentive system to reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. For instance, users with high reputation may be granted special privileges, whereas users with low or unestablished reputation may have limited privileges. -- Rheingold inclines that [online reputation systems] arose as a result of the need for Internet users to gain trust in the individuals they transact with online. The innate trait he makes note of in humans is that functions of society such as gossip 'keeps us up to date on who to trust, who other people trust, who is important, and who decides who is important'. Internet sites such as eBay and Amazon he argues seek to service this consumer trait and are 'built around the contributions of millions of customers, enhanced by reputation systems that police the quality of the content and transactions exchanged through the site'.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Raph's Website -- The world, virtual

'...it’s easy to foresee the need for an oversimplified globalized single reputation value, which is one startup that likely aggregates rep systems a la Rotten Tomatoes; followed by a second one that is a rep farming or maintenance exploit startup designed to falsify reputations; followed by another that is a trust verification or exploit detection firm. Clearly, current job sites, certification systems, and university degrees do not adequately serve the need for publicly visible levels and classes. An overall game system, perhaps primed via the flawed reputation system, would allow for a classless system to be built whereby world virtual userplayers could acquire levels in a range of skills. Levels in your top few classes would then be the single most prominently visible thing on your profiles... Subcultures emerge wherein you can create a completely separate identity profile with its own alternate levels...'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Datamation.com -- 'Pre-crime' Comes to the HR Dept.

'While background checks, which mainly look for a criminal record, and even credit checks have become more common, Social Intelligence is the first company that I'm aware of that systematically trolls social networks for evidence of bad character. Using automation software that slogs through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs, and "thousands of other sources," the company develops a report on the "real you" -- not the carefully crafted you in your resume. The service is called Social Intelligence Hiring. The company promises a 48-hour turn-around. The reports feature a visual snapshot of what kind of person you are, evaluating you in categories like "Poor Judgment," "Gangs," "Drugs and Drug Lingo" and "Demonstrating Potentially Violent Behavior." The company mines for rich nuggets of raw sewage in the form of racy photos, unguarded commentary about drugs and alcohol and much more.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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Social Media Today -- Facebook Groups Give Rise to Social Nicheworking

'Just because we have the ability to invite people into Groups or to check them into Places, we have to consider the social costs of doing so. What is the impact of this action on my relationship with this individual? Does adding them to this Group or checking them into this location hurt or help the stature and value of my position? As an online society of social denizens, we typically underestimate the potential of social networking and the economy that governs it. Social capital is more valuable than we realize and the currency that determines its net worth is represented by our individual social actions and how they accumulate in the short and long term. This is your time to define who you are and the value you behold…' -- 'Groups represents the future of social networking. We can design groups where we communicate, collaborate, and co-create with purpose, whether it’s personally or professionally.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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Broader Perspective -- Social economic networks and the new intangibles

'The new currencies have new measurement metrics for monetization such as awareness, influence, authenticity, reach, action, engagement, impact, spread, connectedness, velocity, participation, shared values, and presence. As market principles become the norm for intangible resource allocation and exchange, all market agents are starting to have a more intuitive and pervasive concept of exchange and reciprocity. Reputation has always been an important intangible asset, and was one of the first alternative currencies cited; however it was not really monetizable other than as an attribute of labor capital. Now, there are more alternative currencies, such as social currency, that are directly monetizable through social economic networks.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Freedomain Radio Blogs -- Caging the Devils: The Stateless Society and Violent Crime

'In a stateless society, contracts with DROs are required to maintain any sort of economic life—without DRO representation, citizens are unable to get a job, hire employees, rent a car, buy a house or send their children to school. DROs would have clauses allowing you to cancel your coverage, just as insurance companies have now. Thus you would have to notify your DRO that you were dropping coverage. No problem, you’re off their list. However, DROs as a whole really need to keep track of people who have opted out of the entire DRO system, since those people have clearly signaled their intention to go rogue, to live off the grid, and commit crimes. Thus if you cancel your DRO insurance, your name goes into a database available to all DROs. If you sign up with another DRO, no problem, your name is taken out. However, if you do not sign up with any other DRO, red flags pop up all over the system. What happens then?' -- You either rejoin an existing DRO or you start your own.

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Mojo -- Reward your most passionate fans for their loyalty with badges and points using Mojo

'Reward your fans for visiting your web site and sharing your content. Let visitors to your web site and your Twitter followers unlock badges + earn points.' -- Creator describes it as "Foursquare for the web."

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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PeerIndex

'Who are the authorities on the web? PeerIndex helps you discover the authorities and opinion formers on a given topic.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- The Web Means the End of Forgetting

'...the Internet is shackling us to everything that we have ever said, or that anyone has said about us, making the possibility of digital self-reinvention seem like an ideal from a distant era. -- In the Web 3.0 world, Fertik predicts, people will be rated, assessed and scored based not on their creditworthiness but on their trustworthiness as good parents, good dates, good employees, good baby sitters or good insurance risks. Zittrain also speculated that, over time, more and more reputation queries will be processed by a handful of de facto reputation brokers – like the existing consumer-reporting agencies Experian and Equifax, for example – which will provide ratings for people based on their sociability, trustworthiness and employability. -- In the Babylonian Talmud, people have an obligation not to remind others of their past misdeeds, on the assumption they may have atoned and grown spiritually from their mistakes.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Nieman Journalism Lab -- Ushahidi in 3G: How media outlets could extend the mapping platform beyond crisis communications

'“Unbounded crowdsourcing” is what we are familiar with: the idea of opening up a platform to the world, and letting the world contribute. “Bounded crowdsourcing” is when you have a specific network of individuals who are doing the reporting. So it’s a known, trusted network of individuals. So what they did is they had their own journalists on the ground, who were texting and tweeting live to the map, but they also opened it up to other residents — people in Gaza — to also submit information. ...you don’t necessarily know whether the crowd is trustworthy, or individuals in the crowd are trustworthy ...if some of these individuals start also reporting the same event that the journalists are reporting, then you know they might actually be more trustworthy. And so it creates this kind of digital trace, or like a shadow of history that allows you to start identifying which individuals in the crowd may actually be trustworthy. And you can sort of assign them a higher credibility score.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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eBay -- Seller performance standards

'eBay expects sellers to consistently provide service that results in a high level of buyer satisfaction....if you don't meet buyers' expectations, it can lead to: #A bad experience for you and the buyer #Low detailed seller ratings (DSRs) #Negative or neutral Feedback from buyers #A buyer opening a case in the Resolution Center to fix problems -- If you don't meet the minimum performance standards, your search placement will be lowered and there may be limits to your selling activity until your ratings improve. You may also be restricted from selling items on eBay if your performance falls significantly below the minimum requirements. If your account doesn't meet the standards, you: #Need to resolve all issues on the account before buying or selling with other accounts #Can't register for a new account #Can't use an existing eBay account to avoid buying and selling limits or other policy consequences'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Freedomain Radio -- #1527 Conformists Can't Understand DROs and Anarchism (MP3)

Gisted -- You can't understand how a stateless society will work if you've never stood up to a social group; if you've never stood up for what is right in the face of what is socially accepted. But if you *have* stood up, you totally get how powerful social ostracism and non-violent methods are in enforcing social norms. One of the ways we really understand how society works is to act against its prejudices. And through that process we experience first hand the power of social cohesion, of social exclusion, of social ostracism, of disapproval, of criticism, of negativity, etc. And once you've understood how incredibly powerful social ostracism is as a form of social organisation, then you're pretty comfortable with the idea that it can run society.'

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Wikipedia -- Dispute resolution organization

'A dispute resolution organization, or DRO, is a conceptualized organization providing services such as mediation and arbitration through the private sector. A perceived advantage of dispute resolution organizations over governmental court systems is that the former can exist in a competitive marketplace in which entrepreneurs on the lookout for profits seek to outdo their rivals in providing good service, low prices, and other features valued by their clientele. #Enforceability of verdicts: Murray Rothbard opines that court decisions need not be enforced by the government in order to be effective. Even before the decisions of dispute resolution organizations were considered legally enforceable in government courts, merchants obeyed them to avoid the risk of ostracism and boycotts. A merchant who refused to abide by the verdict would be blacklisted and thus become unable to avail himself of an arbitrator's services in the future.'

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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SlideShare -- Amy Jo Kim: Metagame Design

'#1. Create a coherent experience that unfolds over time #2. Define a points system (experience points, social points, redeemable points) that supports your purpose and audience #3. Introduce feedback and rewards that motivate newbies, regulars, enthusiasts, and leaders #4. Design rewards that players will be eager to share #5. Use "game pacing" to grant rewards over time' -- Productive example: Stack Overflow, a reputation-building technical Q&A community

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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FORA.tv -- Daniel Suarez - Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality

"I would argue that we're in Darwinian struggle with narrow AI, and that nature is currently selecting for bots and against humans and one reason efficiency. Rather than rising to some great complex golden age, I am concerned that human civilization might head towards a boolean age that's a constant bombardment of categorical questions that you must answer. You can't post any questions that aren't asked directly of you. When awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide almost without noticing back into superstitions and darkness." -- Suggests an encrypted, reputation-based, darknet economy.

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Independent Institute -- Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete? (2001)

'You and I sign a contract. In the contract, we specify a private arbitrator. The contract includes the private arbitrator’s public key. The contract is digitally signed by both you and me. Now, you think I violated the contract. You demand arbitration. The arbitrator rules that I owe you damages. I refuse to pay. The arbitrator writes a brief statement that I agreed to—that he would be the arbitrator of disputes, that he gave a verdict, and that I refused to pay the damages. Digitally signs it and gives it to you. You now have a package. That package consists of the original contract which I digitally signed, so provably I agreed to it, and the arbitrator’s verdict, which he digitally signed, so provably the arbitrator I agreed to, said that I cheated. You may now e-mail that package to anybody else in the industry. -- You want the arbitrator who gets the right result at low cost. This is a market mechanism for generating efficient law for the private market.'

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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raxraxrax.com -- EXPOSED: UK PR Agencies fail to understand Foursquare

'Brand hi-jacking: My main concern is that 31 of the Top 50 PR Agencies don’t even have Foursquare on their radar which means that they would be unaware of any negative comments that may have been posted about them. You can imagine the situation where frustrated hacks who have been poorly pitched by a PR exec one too many times could have a bit of fun posting messages on Foursquare at the offending agency’s location. This is worrying only because it shows that if they can’t keep tabs of what damage is potentially being done to their reputation, how can they then safeguard their own clients’ own good standing? -- Am I being harsh? Yes. Quite possibly. The reaction I expect is one that echoes “We can’t have a presence on EVERY new social network that comes along – we simply don’t have the time”. Rubbish! My point is about reputation. ...as communications experts your agency should be ahead of the game and not playing catch-up.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility Annex -- Technologies, narratives of self

'...digitalization makes the reproduction of the permanently insecure self more integral to the reproduction of consumerist social relations. The capacities and networks of the internet permit an archived self that becomes a subject's most important piece of property ... "reputational capital," the sum total of connections and actions produced within the social space online. This self subsists on postitive affirmation and metrics that establish the visiblity of its activities online. Being is transformed into "presence," which can be measured and ranked ...a self will need to be grounded in commercialized, corporatized discourse before we apprehend it ...narratives of subjectivity are even more impoverished by the restricted classifications of digital data possible within these platforms. The self we are compelled to produce online is smaller, with less potential for growth and less curiosity, the more we produce it and add to the archive that will dictate our future choices.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Whuffie Bank - Reputation is Wealth

'The value of your Whuffie is obtained from your online reputation by tracking your interactions with social networks and the feedback from your contacts.' -- Ponzi rises to the top. All gladhands on deck. Cult of reciprocity. Or is that just me being needlessly cynical?

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Where Nobody Knows Your Name and They Never Know You Came

'...what happens when markets become non-anonymous is that we become reliant on consumption more than ever to mediate our relations with others, so that friendships happen only within the context of brand communities and branded social networks and shared affinities for the same products. “Social networking, blogging, etc. have created a huge incentive for people to put themselves on display, when previously they may have just kept their opinions mostly to themselves.” It is that incentivizing that worries me ... its conflation with commercialized self-display and personal branding. Social networks keep score of attention in measurable ways, heightening the stakes, and our physical isolation erodes the traditional mitigating forces of courtesy (which is where the stigma against performing, of hogging attention, arose from in the first place). The danger is that performance as a gift, a carefree act of self-forgetting, instead becomes an ongoing requisite act of self-definition.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility Annex -- More on "Consumer Emancipation"

'One must invent a community, an adoring audience, in order to imagine that self-expression is a gift. and things like Facebook serve to make that fantasy easier to sustain, by making positive feedback thoughtlessly implementable. The ordinary impersonal markets ... are suspended to force participants to sell their own "radical self-expression" instead as a self-conscious product, for approval and attention and status and a stable position in an emerging social hierarchy. This is allowing identity-driven consumerism to supplant capitalist consumption. -- The market is an atavistic structure that works against the sort of self consumerism exalts -- markets prefer anonymous subjects engaging in exchanges ruled entirely by rationality rather than the vagaries of social relations and social/cultural capital. -- ...social networks seize upon the mechanisms Burning Man evinces for creating a community built on coercive sharing, but tosses out the impermanence that excuses the coercion.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Generation Bubble -- Public Image Unlimited: Consumerism and Anonymity’s End (3)

'The main purpose of social networks ... is to guarantee us a place to display our consumption. The point is to discourage online anonymity, to get us invested in the notion of reputational capital. We begin to publicize every purchase, to authenticate every choice by broadcasting it. We strengthen our communal ties with every singularized transaction. We will have reason to believe that everything we buy has an impact on our reputation, on how we are seen, on who we really are. We will respond accordingly, stylizing and designing the most mundane commodities so that they can elucidate some aspect of personality. If we share, we contribute information, we add value to the network and we know that our voice has been aggregated. Our drop was added to the demographic data pool, but more important, our own personal archive has been enriched. We become more findable. We can begin to keep score of how often we’re found, how real we are to the world.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Generation Bubble -- Public Image Unlimited: Consumerism and Anonymity’s End (2)

'Rather than entering into an exchange with a stable identity, we become ourselves through the public transaction, which provides us with a self only for as long as it is approved in the interaction process. The exchange is “singularized,” its uniqueness supplants that of the people involved. They fade into the communal backdrop, waiting to emerge again in another dramatic moment of “sharing.” And every effort at sharing will be judged, fixing our place within a status hierarchy. We can fantasize about finding the status hierarchy we could dominate — maximizing our “subcultural capital.” But this involves doubling down on personalized exchange, moving further away from the capital that circulates with no questions asked (money) and reinforcing the value of contingent capital that has worth only in particularly circumstances. So at that point, we would be dealing in an even more obscure personal currency, begging for people to accept it, exchange it into acceptance and attention.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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GameCyte -- Unlocking the Psychology of Achievements

'When it became clear to competitive players that simply beating a game was no longer enough to differentiate themselves, the gamers themselves began to define new, harder objectives and qualifying criteria, leading to the advent of hyper-competitive pursuits. Soon, gamers were taking photos of their TV screens to verify high scores or crucial in-game moments. Game creators and media began to come on board with this new trend of in-game excellence, offering prizes for especially notable achievements. [Activision's] sew-on patches appear to be the first appearance of game achievements as we know them today: abstract, collectible representations of in-game merit, whose presence is separate from the gameplay yet intertwined with the experience as an extra motivator and/or novelty. -- As Napoleon famously said with regards to the ceremonial medals his soldiers fought alarmingly hard to earn: "With a handful of ribbons I can conquer all of Europe."'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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PopMatters -- Your Brain is the New Factory Floor

'Let them eat Facebook profiles. -- We won’t put a price tag on ourselves or our friends or our pleasures, but Facebook will happily do that behind our backs, in economic exchanges that don’t include us. ...we have become the stuff being exchanged, both in what we are and what we do online. ...no matter how much we might love attention, we can’t use it to meet our basic needs. Ultimately, we all have to participate in the cash economy. -- In order to reclaim the fruits of our labor and stop working on the digital plantation, we may be forced to become self-consciously mercenary about what heretofore we have been content to share out of a spirit of convivial sociality. We will need to start viewing our social behavior as our intellectual property, our various selves as proprietary content to which we retain the broadcasting rights and which we have no intention of licensing for reuse without our express written consent.' -- Awesome reveal of 'free'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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TIME -- How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles." -- "...the key elements of the Twitter platform — the follower structure, link-sharing, real-time searching — will persevere regardless of Twitter's fortunes..." -- "Twitter has been a hothouse of end-user innovation: the hashtag; searching; its 11,000 third-party applications; all those creative new uses of Twitter — some of them banal, some of them spam and some of them sublime. You don't need patents or Ph.D.s to build on this kind of platform."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Social Hallucinations -- Social(istic) Media or The Rise of the New Capitalism?

"What we observe today is the rise of the new networked capitalism with intellect as the form of social capital that increases with use and the new digital opportunities are facilitators that drive the intellect growth. In the industrial capitalism machines sucked workers in, depersonalized and automatized work, today computers / software sucked our knowledge, mashed it up and customized it getting it available and usable / reusable at every click. The question is not longer how much you produce but how much you manage to seed. The more you seed the more growth you create. What justify the existence and enhances the power of our ideas are their ability to spread and inseminate other minds (self-promotion happens to be quite effective insemination technique when used right) - twitter, blogs etc. being the tools helping on the way. It means social media has nothing to do with socialism except first 6 letters, they are the new capitalistic means of production and seeding."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Virtual Goods News -- Facebook Credits Now In Beta Testing

'Users can gift Facebook Credits to other users, use them to purchase virtual gifts, or spend real money to obtain more from Facebook. Users in the beta test can give Credits to those not currently in the beta network, essentially inviting them into the test. At the current exchange rate, $1 is worth 100 Facebook Credits and new credits may only be purchased with credit cards. Other users, for example, cannot see how many Credits others have. Individuals can't even see their own Credits balance until they're trying to give Credits or spend at Facebook Gifts. Right now Facebook doesn't allow users to "cash out" Credits for real money, so if a user does get a lot of Credits, all that can really be done with them is to give them to friends or to use them to buy virtual gifts for friends. The currency is, quite literally, social.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Twollars

'The Twollars idea was conceived by Internet entrepreneurs Eiso Kant and Mac Taylor. They noticed that there was an enormous amount of 'social energy' on Twitter that goes unmeasured. They realised that if this energy could be converted into a symbolic standard, it could then be passed around like a currency. They came up with Twollars as that standard. Twollars passes all the tests. It is positive. It is social. It is a measure of energy that can be exchanged like money. It's a way to convert your 'good deed', your knowledge, your energy, your generosity it into a new form of money. By converting your Tweet into Twollars you can now pass that value on to others. You can reward others for their Tweet. And they can do the same. And soon you have new way of valuing and rewarding all the people you like, admire, and appreciate.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collector

'The people on the other end of the line often have no legal obligation to assume the debt of a spouse, sibling or parent. But they take responsibility for it anyway. New hires at DCM train for three weeks in what the company calls “empathic active listening” ... Not everyone has the temperament to make such calls. About half of DCM’s hires do not make it past the first 90 days. Adam Cohen, chief executive of Phillips & Cohen Associates of Westampton, N.J., said his team of 300 collectors “are all trained in the five stages of grief.” If a relative is more focused on denial or anger instead of, say, bargaining, the collector offers to transfer him to the human resources company Ceridian LifeWorks, where “master’s level grief counselors” are standing by. After a week, the relative is contacted again. DCM executives say some of the survivors not only gladly pay but write appreciative notes.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Shirky -- A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

W.R. Bio detailed three patterns: #1. Sex talk. "A group met for pairing off." [This] is one basic pattern that groups can always devolve into, away from the sophisticated purpose... #2. The identification and vilification of external enemies. ...nothing causes a group to galvanize like an external enemy. And groups often gravitate towards members who are the most paranoid and make them leaders, because those are the people who are best at identifying external enemies. #3. Religious veneration. The nomination and worship of a religious icon or a set of religious tenets. The religious pattern is, essentially, we have nominated something that's beyond critique. --- [G]roup structure is necessary to defend the group from itself. To keep a group focused on its own sophisticated goals and to keep a group from sliding into these basic patterns. Group structure defends the group from the action of its own members. The user of social software is the group, not the individual.'

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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ValleyWag -- Privacy: Photo-Humiliation Site Brings Paparazzi Headaches to Masses

"The site, as described by BusinessWeek, appears to operate as a defacto blackmail racket: Your "friends" submit "hilarious" pictures of you, often filched from Facebook. If you are in a picture and want it removed, you have to become a member of the site, which costs $20 per month or $50 per year. Best part: Your "friend" earns a kickback of $10 or $20 if his picture causes you to pay the membership fee. Better to accept the inevitable: Celebrity has been so devalued and democratized that we all have to learn to play the PR games of famous people. That means flooding the market with flattering pictures and blog posts (the equivalent of magazine puff pieces); bullying hostile bloggers and scandal websites (as celebrity flacks do with tabloids and other disfavored publications); and paying the occasional bribe, in the form of anything from flirting to a free lunch to cold, hard cash..." -- Real sick.

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Yale Law Journal -- Reputation as Property in Virtual Economies

"Virtual reputational economies show that reputation can be gained, lost, traded, protected, and shared, all in property-like fashion, without regard to whether it has independent economic value. In other words, reputation is not merely valuable; it is the new New Property. Having defined status as a kind of property, it is possible to further subdivide the virtual reputational economies: social networking platforms like Facebook and MySpace present one model; anonymous blogging and commentary another. In at least one important way, the former are more like online economies than they are like virtual world economies—the status they create and destroy exists both online and in the real-world reputational economy. Individuals use their real identities in these forums and often interact with people with whom they also have off-line relationships. Thus someone whose reputation is ruined in the online reputational economy likely loses it in the real world as well."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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SSRN -- New Frontier of Guanxi: Online Gaming Practices in China by Silvia Lindtner, Scott Mainwaring, Yang Wang

'The vigorous culture of guanxi tends to strongly intertwine game activities with real life activities. ...the art of doing guanxi resembles a kind of game play, a skilled activity that is marked as social, not work, amateur not professional, personal not official. ...guanxi [is] quite compatible with online gaming: a place in which to make social connections, feel human closeness, and maintain friendships over time, with a distinct feeling of being apart from the 'non-game' 'official' 'real life' world... Quality guanxi is often associated with a moral and ethical attitude, as well as mutual reliance on each other, which converts into face/status for both guanxi partners when exposed to others... Emotional aspects of the material and instrumental exchanges that come together in guanxi are not easily visible to outside observers, and the combination of instrumentlism and sentiment thus often appears contradictionary and leads to asociations with corruption and bribing.'

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Clive Thompson -- I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You

'It is easy to become unsettled by privacy-eroding aspects of awareness tools. But there is another — quite different — result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves. Many of the avid Twitterers, Flickrers and Facebook users I interviewed described an unexpected side-effect of constant self-disclosure. The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act. It’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness.'

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet

"... for many, the site isn't just a viable alternative to TV — the added layer of commentary makes it better than TV ... Some users time their comments with the dialog or music, creating a call-and-response feel." -- (see embedded viddy)

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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WordPress Plugins - MicroID
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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube - What have you found when you Google yourself?

"Google Juice" FFS!

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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The Facebook Blog - Friend Lists

Nah! Needs to be dynamic/programmatic. Granted, you need some hard filters. Tags would have been more appropriate, but people 'get' categories, so...

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity - Why Everyone's a Little Brad Pitt

"the Brand Called You meme brought to its grim apotheosis. But haven't our lives always been a little bit public and stage-managed? Microcelebrity simply makes the social engineering we've always done a little more overt - and maybe a little more honest."

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Guardian - James Harkin on the shape of things to come

"... the incriminating material whirling around the cybersphere will somehow have to be expunged... mass "Facebook suicides" will soon become the norm as young people try to agree a bond of forgetting by deactivating their profiles in unison."

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Guardian - Playing games with Facebook: the future of virtual worlds

"Facebook is a game. A very social one... the goals are to win friends and influence people."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Alt Text - Let Our Experts Craft a Compelling Virtual You

"At PeopleTrailBlazers Inc., we help you live our motto: Be the person you want to pay someone to be for you." Bio Butler?

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Broader Perspective - Second Life Meta-Me

"Some suggestions for new ways of avatorial representation: #1. Profile-based avatars #2. Reputation-based avatars #3. Idea-based avatars #4. Value system-based avatars #5. Presence-based avatars #6. Real life Sims Online avatars"

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Astonishing! Spock, a New People-Search Engine, Thinks You're a Pedophile

"If Spock succeeds in becoming the Google for people search, you may have no choice but to sign on. Your reputation may depend on it."

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Terra Nova - Player Vs Player in a corporate environment

"What happens as we get more and more open and transparent in our actions. Lifelogging, track records in blogs, popularity, reputations recorded and shown to the world? Are corporate employees going to turn into characters in a huge role playing game?"

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Invading Our Own Privacy

'The prevailing paradigm is a seamless integration of content, communication, data collection and targeted marketing. Companies build brands by purposely cultivating this process, creating spaces where they're encouraging people to pour their hearts out.'

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june 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wired - The See-Through CEO

Kelman: "I honestly believe that if Redfin were stripped absolutely bare for all the world to see, naked and humiliated in the sunlight, more people would do business with us." ... 'Google is not a search engine. Google is a reputation-management system.'

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may 2007 by adamcrowe

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Broader Perspective - Our avatars ourselves

"... more diffuse exploration of virtual identity as humans have a closet full of avatars for all of their different professional and personal virtual activities... avatar imaging, avatar reputation management and consolidation...

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april 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Herding the Mob

"a story titled “Geek’s Guide to Getting in Shape: 13 Surefire Tips” quickly tallied more than 100 del.icio.us links... Niall Kennedy outed the article as geek bait... the story was planted by a Web site loaded with advertising."

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march 2007 by adamcrowe

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