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Is reputation obsolete?

Essay by Judith Donath.
Continue the conversation on online reputation with Chris Dellarocas.
In the past, most conversations were ephemeral: spoken words quickly slipped into the past, resurrected only if a listener later repeated them from memory. Today, many discussions and transactions live on indefinitely. Online conversations are often permanently archived and events in the face-to-face [...]

Posted 17 October 2008 § Chris Dellarocas § Cooperation § Free Expression § Judith Donath § Reputation Systems § Transparency ‡ Comments (3)

The Latent Community in Every Webpage

essay by Clay Shirky
On a Monday morning in March of 2006, forty thousand students in southern California stunned teachers and administrators by walking out of school to protest HR4437, a bill in the US Congress that would have mandated a crackdown on US immigrant populations. The largely Latino student group had been inspired to act [...]

Posted 15 May 2008 § Clay Shirky ‡ Comments (4)