Two Shrines Intact, but U.S Reputation Still Marred After Clashes With Rebels

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Virtual Shrines Pop Up to Hail Low-Tech
Pope (Reuters)

Virtual Shrines Pop Up to Hail Low-Tech
Pope (Reuters) 04/07/2005 05:37 AM
Reuters - Pope John Paul did not like computers, never had a cell phone and wrote everything by hand, but his death is being mourned in a most 21st-century way with weblogs and SMSs.

Stars marred

Stars marred 09/15/2004 07:37 AM
USA Today Sep 15 2004 12:14PM GMT

Italy-Iraq match marred by death

Italy-Iraq match marred by death 08/27/2004 05:45 PM
Italy beats Iraq 1-0 to take the Olympic football bronze, a day after an Italian journalist's death in Iraq.

"Vote count marred by computer woes"

"Vote count marred by computer woes" 11/13/2003 08:54 AM

Voting Marred by Boycott, Protest at
Afghan Debate

Voting Marred by Boycott, Protest at
Afghan Debate 01/01/2004 07:55 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 1 2004 6:48AM ET

'Patriot' Act Intact

'Patriot' Act Intact 07/09/2004 01:45 PM

UPDATED

NY Times: Effort to Curb Scope of Antiterrorism Law Falls Short. The library proposal, tacked onto a $39.8 billion spending bill, would have barred the federal government from demanding library records, reading lists, book customer lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations. The antiterrorism law expanded the government's authority to secure warrants from a secret intelligence court in Washington to obtain records from libraries and other institutions, using what many legal experts regard as a lesser standard of proof than is needed in traditional criminal investigations.

UPDATE It was close, and the Bush administration and its Republican House allies had to threaten, wheedle and whine, even extending the voting time when they saw they were going to lose if the did things by the normal rules. But they prevailed. Slowly but surely, people are beginning to understand what overwhelming power a frightened Congress granted the executive in the wrongly named "Patriot" Act. Maybe, someday, Congress will recover enough courage to protect our rights instead of handing them over so -- forgive the word -- freely. Note: A troll whose posts I have banned from this forum pointed out, fairly for once, that it's not appropriate for me to imply that opponents are unpatriotic people. Certain acts may be anti-American in their impact, but certainly in this case they were the acts of people who love this country as much as I -- and our troll -- do.

Bhutan's cool online constituional
convention, marred by weird-ass
copyright

Bhutan's cool online constituional
convention, marred by weird-ass
copyright 03/27/2005 10:05 AM
Cory Doctorow: Flotsam sez, "It's a unique event when a country drafts its first constitution. Even rarer is one that exposes it to the world in a PDF. The latter is even more noteworthy when the country is one that has successfully protected its culture and heritage from outside influence. The draft Constitution has been released in both Bhutan's indigenous language, Dzongkha, and English. Any country that says 'gross national happiness is more important than gross national product' has to be a model for the rest of the world."

So cool. Inexplicably, the constitutional site is marred with "Copyright(c) Constitution Drafting Committee. All Rights Reserved." They've even obfuscated their html. Because goodness know you wouldn't want your constitution being pirated. Link (Thanks, Flotsam!)

Palestinian-Israeli Peace Conference
Marred by Detention of Gaza Participants

Palestinian-Israeli Peace Conference
Marred by Detention of Gaza Participants 01/06/2005 04:26 AM
Arabic Media Internet Network Jan 6 2005 8:34AM GMT

Principal's Strength Intact

Principal's Strength Intact 08/03/2004 02:18 PM
Despite an earnings drop, Principal still has pockets of strength.

FBI comes away intact, but not untouched
(USATODAY.com)

FBI comes away intact, but not untouched
(USATODAY.com) 07/23/2004 06:14 AM
USATODAY.com - The mood was somber at FBI Director Robert Mueller's Christmas party in December 2002. Fifteen months after the Sept. 11 attacks, ashen-faced FBI officials thought the bureau would have to take the fall for the U.S. government's failure to prevent terrorists from killing nearly 3,000 people on American soil.

Convictions Intact, Nader Soldiers On

Convictions Intact, Nader Soldiers On 08/02/2004 03:53 PM
Ralph Nader said that the Democratic convention gave him no reason to drop out of the race, even if he costs John Kerry the election in November.

Sharon struggles to keep coalition
intact

Sharon struggles to keep coalition
intact 06/07/2004 03:35 PM

Keep your activation status intact when
reinstalling XP

Keep your activation status intact when
reinstalling XP 08/27/2004 10:41 PM

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"Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr sent his
fighters home on Wednesday in what may
mark the end of a 10-week revolt against
U.S.-led forces that once engulfed
southern Iraq and Shi'ite Islam's
holiest shrines"

"Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr sent his
fighters home on Wednesday in what may
mark the end of a 10-week revolt against
U.S.-led forces that once engulfed
southern Iraq and Shi'ite Islam's
holiest shrines" 06/17/2004 03:44 AM
the fun is over .. folds up

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Israel to leave Gaza homes intact

Israel to leave Gaza homes intact 04/01/2005 02:47 PM
Israel will not demolish homes vacated by settlers when it withdraws from Gaza, Ariel Sharon says.

Surviving College With Gear And Sanity
Intact?

Surviving College With Gear And Sanity
Intact? 08/30/2004 09:25 PM

Some Pieces Of Genesis Are Intact,
NASA Says (washingtonpost.com)

Some Pieces Of Genesis Are Intact,
NASA Says (washingtonpost.com) 09/10/2004 08:13 PM
washingtonpost.com - SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 10 -- NASA scientists said Friday that they have recovered intact some critical pieces of the Genesis space capsule and are optimistic that the wreckage will yield valuable information about the origins of the solar system.

Fire-fighting fluid leaves computers
intact

Fire-fighting fluid leaves computers
intact 04/16/2004 08:47 AM

Judge Leaves City's Approval of Gay
Marriage Intact For Now

Judge Leaves City's Approval of Gay
Marriage Intact For Now 02/17/2004 06:37 PM
A second hearings later in the day could still result in an order for City Hall in San Francisco to stop the same-sex marriages.

SEM and Reputation Management

SEM and Reputation Management 06/28/2004 02:44 PM
Source: ClickZ - Identifying flame sites is only the beginning. How to win reputation management battles with smart SEM....

A pulse of light has been stopped in its
tracks with all its photons intact,
reveal US physicists

A pulse of light has been stopped in its
tracks with all its photons intact,
reveal US physicists 12/13/2003 03:43 AM
New Scientist .. newscientist

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Wikipedia, Reputation and Accuracy

Wikipedia, Reputation and Accuracy 08/31/2004 12:00 PM
There's been a fascinating uproar in cyberspace about the estimable Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia I discussed here early this year and in the book. One of the topics was whether a site written entirely by its readers -- and where every page can be edited by anyone -- could meet any kind of "standards" of accuracy and reliablity. The latest tempest was stirred by this column in a Syracuse, NY, newspaper, in which a librarian is quoted dumping on Wikipedia for various reasons. It gets complicated from there. Thankfuly, Ross Mayfield has deconstructed the debate with lots of links and good quotes. Read the whole thing.

Manifesto for the Reputation Society

Manifesto for the Reputation Society 07/22/2004 06:18 AM
Manifesto for the Reputation Society by Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng Zhang
http://firstmonda y.org/issues/issue9_7/masum/

Abstract
Information overload, challenges of evaluating quality, and the opportunity to benefit from experiences of others have spurred the development of reputation systems. Most Internet sites which mediate between large numbers of people use some form of reputation mechanism: Slashdot, eBay, ePinions, Amazon, and Google all make use of collaborative filtering, recommender systems, or shared judgements of quality. But we suggest the potential utility of reputation services is far greater, touching nearly every aspect of society. By leveraging our limited and local human judgement power with collective networked filtering, it is possible to promote an interconnected ecology of socially beneficial reputation systems — to restrain the baser side of human nature, while unleashing positive social changes and enabling the realization of ever higher goals.

could've destroyed their reputation

could've destroyed their reputation 12/29/2003 06:06 AM
Talking Points Memo .. the lucid take-down

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Marion Jones's Reputation Is Up in the
Air

Marion Jones's Reputation Is Up in the
Air 07/08/2004 10:30 PM
Marion Jones, one of the most iconic female athletes of her time, begins the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on Friday heavy with burdens.

Patents, RFCs and Reputation

Patents, RFCs and Reputation 09/16/2004 01:55 AM
Here's a thought, which is more valuable: the Eolas Patent on browser plugins or Dave Crocker's RFC for email? Eolas recieved a half a billion settlement from Microsoft, and the original inventors probably realized a considerable reward. I'm using Eolas...

Blogs, Voice, and Reputation

Blogs, Voice, and Reputation 06/22/2005 02:19 AM

So last week I was lucky enough to have dinner with the Scan 3 – Alane, Alice, and George of It’s All Good fame. If you read their blog, you know how dinner was. Lively, fun, entertaining, and most interesting. They’re exactly like they seem in their writing, which I’ve found to be true of most bloggers who give good voice. If you have the chance to be in the same room with the three of them, I highly recommend it. I can’t say enough about the level of understanding these folks have about libraries, where we need to be, and how we need to get there.

Then I was given a whirlwind tour of the OCLC Research team’s digs and even their actual research. They’re working on some very cool stuff, some of which we’ll start seeing out in the wild very soon. I wish I could have spent more time with every person I met there and heard more about their various projects, but I had to catch a plane home.

It was a most interesting experience for me because I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with OCLC. They’re the 800–pound gorilla in the room for me, kind of like libraryland’s Microsoft. But over the last couple of years, I feel like I’ve been watching a transformation, an evolution of the gorilla. It’s not that they didn’t have smart or dedicated people in the past, because they did. From the sidelines, it looks to me like OCLC is finally looking outwards instead of inwards, that they’ve noticed there’s a whole web thing going on out there and that ultimately, they (in particular their member libraries) need to be part of it.

This is best exemplified by Lorcan Dempsey, his blog, and his mantra that OCLC needs to make its data work harder, the way Amazon and Google do. I first took this new attitude seriously when they released the Environmental Scan, even more so when Open WorldCat was released. For years I was mad at them for keeping WorldCat so closed and isolated, so this was a most welcome change. It seems like now all of those smart and dedicated people are thinking bigger, more collaboratively, and just more expansively than they have in the past. That’s a Martha Stewart good thing, bolded, italicized, and underlined. Last week they announced the e-serials pilot project to expose full-text electronic journals in WorldCat and the just-announced ‘Ask-a-Libra rian’ pilot in WorldCat, and just wait until you see the WorldCat wiki (it’s too-damn-cool, and it should rock hard).

While you’re at it, check out Thom Hickey’s blog Outgoing, and you’ll see the rest of one of the two best employee blog implementations in libraryvendorland (the other being the Talis employee blogs). I can’t believe more library vendors aren’t doing this, but they’ve got two great models to help get them started. In addition, employees from both companies often leave comments on my site or send me email asking questions or further exploring issues I’ve raised, and I know they do this on other sites, too. I feel like they’re really listening (not just to me because I’m not so egotistical as to think they need to be, but just that they’re listening overall) and thinking about what’s being said about their products and services out in the big, wide world [web]. If someone takes the time to write about something your company did or said (or didn’t do or didn’t say), it says a lot when you respond to them on their own site. All library vendors (and libraries) should be tracking what’s said about them in the blogosphere via RSS (another point I stress in my presentations).

So, why am I telling you all of this? For a few reasons. This post is aimed at several different audiences.

1. The marketing/PR folks at OCLC: I have no idea how or why the Scan 3 were able to start blogging outside of OCLC’s site, and I have no idea how you feel about it, but hopefully you know that their blog is worth its weight in gold several times over. This one blog has done a world of good to rehabilitate OCLC’s reputation and humanize your organization. More people talk about OCLC, point to what OCLC is saying, and follow what OCLC is doing (and give you free advertising for it) because of the honest and direct voices on It’s All Good. I actually use them as a case study in my blogging presentations. I have no evidence that you plan to change the setup but just in case, don’t. No one has indicated to me any problems or grumbled anything, but it never hurts to note how things look from the outside. After all, there’s a reason I was invited to tour Research, and there’s a reason I’m writing this post of praise for what they (and the Scan team) are doing. It worked for everybody.

2. Libraries: if you watch It’s All Good and Lorcan’s blog, you’ll notice all of the things I’ve observed in this post. Voice, authenticity, humanizing a used-to-be-faceless-organization. Blogging can give you all of this. Even if you don’t need to rehabilitate your library’s image, let’s face it, library web sites could use a little personality. If you’re not already blogging, you should consider it, especially if you already have a “what’s new” page. That’s where you want to start. Bonus points: starting a blog automatically gives you an RSS feed.

3. OCLC Research (and really the whole staff): keep up the great work! It’s really refreshing to see this change, and I look forward to even greater things from you.  No pressure.  ;-)

Many-to-Many: Wikipedia Reputation and
the Wemedia Project

Many-to-Many: Wikipedia Reputation and
the Wemedia Project 09/01/2004 05:01 PM
Ross Mayfield on the reliability of the Wikipedia .. Ross Mayfield’s in-depth review .. deconstructed the debate .. new question mark .. rassembls ici .. Many-to-Many .. round-up

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Reputation systems academic paper

Reputation systems academic paper 07/19/2004 11:47 AM
The current issue of First Monday has a thorough academic article on reputation systems.

The sharing of observations and opinions builds up a picture in each person’s mind of the reputation’s subject, which we might call the "Invisible Eye" — the distributed formation of reputations, and consequent increased ability to distinguish better from worse. To the degree that you have access to and trust the experience of others, it is almost as if you yourself had been there watching that previous situation, thus increasing your base of experience from which to judge future reliability — and increasing pressure on the subject in question to behave responsibly. The analogy to Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand is not accidental; just as selfish local actions with market incentives can lead to collectively efficient behavior, locally maximizing actions with reputation incentives have the potential for similar guided emergent behavior that exceeds what might have been designed by a conscious planner.

The ultimate aim is to increase the level of collective wisdom through sharing our separate experience and expertise. This will enable a "division of experience" — instead of each of us personally suffering through scams, cheats, and mediocrity, we will be able to leverage each other’s experiences. Collectively, aided by astutely networked reputation systems, we stand the best chance of overcoming our dark side and bringing out the best in us.

Lin k (Thanks, Alex!)

A quick self-Google once a day to guard
your reputation

A quick self-Google once a day to guard
your reputation 05/22/2004 11:19 AM
Sydney Morning Herald May 22 2004 2:50PM GMT

Brightmail Bows Reputation Service

Brightmail Bows Reputation Service 01/27/2004 04:07 PM
Internet News Jan 27 2004 8:43PM GMT

Corporate Reputation Management 2004

Corporate Reputation Management 2004 01/22/2004 03:30 PM
marcus evans Jan 22 2004 7:24PM GMT

Crashes Tarnish Houston Rail Reputation
(AP)

Crashes Tarnish Houston Rail Reputation
(AP) 08/10/2004 04:11 PM
AP - Once called the "train to nowhere," Houston's new rail line between downtown and the Astrodome is earning a few new nicknames — "Danger Train," the "Wham Bam Tram," "A Streetcar Named Disaster."

Ketchup mishap stains his reputation...
(Reuters)

Ketchup mishap stains his reputation...
(Reuters) 06/17/2005 05:04 PM
Reuters - An email between a highly paid lawyer and a secretary over a tomato ketchup stain has become the talk of legal circles in London, leaving the sender distinctly red-faced.

Solid reputation paints bull's-eye on
Mozilla's Firefox

Solid reputation paints bull's-eye on
Mozilla's Firefox 01/06/2005 07:20 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 6 2005 11:36AM GMT

Utne Reader story on Whuffie and
reputation economies

Utne Reader story on Whuffie and
reputation economies 12/27/2004 05:45 PM
Cory Doctorow: I was interviewed for an article on reputation economies in the current issue of the Utne Reader -- the piece is online now!

In the 2003 science fiction novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, author Cory Doctorow imagines a society where all of life's necessities are free, and market laws such as supply and demand cease to exist for everything else. Instead of trading in a hard currency, citizens living in this "post-scarcity economy" measure their wealth with an ephemeral, reputation-based currency called "Whuffie." Doing something that benefits the community, like baking a cake or writing beautiful poetry, increases a person's Whuffie, while causing a traffic accident or publishing clumsy prose can temporarily put you in a virtual poorhouse. Everyone is wired into the Internet via brain implants and can routinely view and modify others' standing instantly (and free of charge), ultimately making one's status the subject of majority opinion.

Link (Thanks, Brendan!)

Utah City Shuns Party-Town Reputation
(AP)

Utah City Shuns Party-Town Reputation
(AP) 04/10/2004 05:47 PM
AP - This southern Utah city's ranking as a spring break party place is dropping fast, and that's just fine with local officials.

Brainstorm 2004 session notes - The
decline in America's reputation

Brainstorm 2004 session notes - The
decline in America's reputation 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

Now is tutorial session: The decline in America's reputation - Keith Reinhard w/ Pattie Sellers - What imact does it have on the U.S. and American brands? Reinhard will speak about a major new study.

Here are my notes. They are rough notes and may be a bit inaccurate or unclear.

Most people associate America with American's brands. Interesting to note that Carly Fiorina said that she didn't think that she suffered from America's bad imaged in response to a question by Martin Varsavsky.

"If you must talk, can you at least lower the volume..." - advice by foreigner to American about their voice.

The presentation made it clear that people outside of America have many negative feelings towards America and that most American's didn't care. The question they are addressing is, what can businesses in America do?

Tools to help Americans behave seems to be one of the answers...

Singaporean participant : suggesting that it's not just behavior of individuals, but that financial and business decisions made in America impact people in other countries that also affects opinions about America.

It's not business that's the biggest problem, it's US policy. It's the people who can cause changes in US policy and the only way to get people to change is to get them to understand what people think of the US. Most people don't know.

Chinese participant : doing all this work to get US image back will never get the image back to the original big brother image of the US and maybe the goal should be to just become a global peer.

African participant : is there a way for cultural exchange that is less superficial than movies and brands. Maybe people are more similar than we think. How about exchange programs that allow people to live together.

Japanese participant : Q: To what extent does change of government affect how people hate America. A: Resentment has grown over a long period of time, not just during this administration. "Insensitive, arrogant and materialistic." These issues we can address without just government change. Business could address non-government issues and also influence government.

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My 2004 Crystal Ball: Search, Social
Networks, Reputation, RSS

My 2004 Crystal Ball: Search, Social
Networks, Reputation, RSS 12/08/2003 11:43 AM
Given the upcoming new year, I figure it's a good time to share what my crystal ball is telling me. The year 2004 will be exciting for technologists. Pressure has been building in several areas that are poised to really cook next year. Here's my brief take on each of them. Search: Personalization and Relevance Let's face it, PageRank is Dead. Really. I've said it once and I'll say it again. Google knows this. Microsoft knows this. Anyone seriously into...
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