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Nice thoughts on social capital. A key componant of trust metric must be motive, unlike money as a resource for trade that happens to be used for altruism, I see Whuffie as a resource for altruism that might happen to be used for trade.

Sep 22, 2008

#whuffie #altruism

Sep 16, 2008

“In protest of what he says are textbooks’ intolerably high prices — and the dumbing down of their content to appeal to the widest possible market — Professor McAfee has put his introductory economics textbook online free. He says he most likely could have earned a $100,000 advance on the book had he gone the traditional publishing route, and it would have had a list price approaching $200. “This market is not working very well — except for the shareholders in the textbook publishers,” he said. “We have lots of knowledge, but we are not getting it out.” —

Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free - NYTimes.com

(via sds)

McAfee has done something worthy of Whuffie. How will students show appreciation? Will his protest yield results? Good info on open source publishing

key quotes:

“it’s ethic is taken from the digital music world, he said — rip, burn and mash.”

“We are changing textbook publishing from a pipeline to an ecosystem”

Sep 16, 20086 notes

#literature #education #whuffie #mash #publishing

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Sep 16, 20082 notes

#playstation #gaming #avatars

Cern

Moi: what's there?
G: nothing much but her boyfriend is a scientist for CERN where they are accelerating particules
G: in a particle accelerator
Moi: oh wow.. that's intense.
Moi: accelerating particles..
G: it's a new project that will reveal the transcendental object
Moi: we should become hermits and sleep in front of it in traditional mayan clothing.
G: they had a massive one for years and now they built a new one
Moi: have tents.. drink yak milk.
G: yeah and sometimes just disappear into thin air
Moi: into a parallel dimension with whitley streiber playing disc golf with grays.
G: and move back and forth in hyperdimensionalities
G: 4D Disk Golf in the spheres!
Moi: with floating llamas in bubbles!
G: yeah!
G: dancing to electro afrobeat
G: with their long necks
Moi: and weird cubist antelopes that eat tin cans.
Moi: wow.
G: Wow.

She makes a good point that “good feelings” about people and “exposure” doesn’t mean a paycheck. I think however, that her issue actually gives credence to the need for a defined and implemented Whuffie system.

In other words if indivudals knew they could get proper recognition, credibility, and bennies for philanthropic ventures they might be much more motivated to participate. more

Sep 12, 2008

Currently listening to the .mp3 podcast

via cory doctorow

Sep 10, 2008

“Gross National Happiness” —

Jigme Singye Wangchuck (King of Bhutan 1972)

Sep 9, 20081 note

#Gross National Happiness #sufficiency economies #spiritual computing

Sep 9, 2008

Blog Move

I have been in process of moving whuffie.blogspot.com from Blogger to whuffie.esaukessler.com with Wordpress.

While I am still in process of pimping the CSS, the new graphics are published, and I am quite happy with them.

Take a look and tell me what you think.

(I am stil trying to find a good plugin for pumping this Tumblr through Wordpress. I saw one and lost the bookmark. Anyone?)

Sep 9, 2008

#announcements

“But he also saw a certain sense in the notion that burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn’t there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself.” —

neuromancer by william gibson

this book makes me see all sorts of curious things.

(via nikography)

Sep 8, 20086 notes

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Sep 8, 2008

Sep 8, 200811 notes

“Fifty-eight percent of British children eat their evening meal in front of the television (a British child spends more than five hours per day watching a screen); 36 percent never eat any meals together with other family members; and 34 percent of households do not even own dining tables.” —Childhood’s End (via diemkay)

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“When a sospeso is ordered, the customer pays for two coffees, but only receives one. That way, when a person who is homeless or otherwise down on their luck walks into the café, the person can ask if there are any coffees held in suspense, and can have one as a courtesy of the first customer.” —

Caffè sospeso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via slantback)

Coffee Whuffie. Excellent.

Sep 8, 200821 notes

“Although it’s no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes, passports, credit cards, one billion other cards, etc.) it’s still not necessarily common knowledge, and it sounds like the major credit card companies want to keep it that way — according to Adam Savage, Mythbusters was all set to do a show exposing the weak security behind most RFID implementations but was shut down by lawyers from “American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else… [who] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode.” Since Discovery is an ad-supported channel, it’s not surprising that it backed down, but we’d say that the credit card industry would be far better served spending money on actually improving security rather than lawyering up and trying to keep consumers in the dark.” —

Engadget (via furth) (via hilker) (via sds)

Well I have to agree that it might be more appropriate for MythBusters to deliver thier findings to CC companies first to give them time to address the security issue, and then air the program after it is fixed. Thereby exposing the citizens to the least amount of risk.

Sep 2, 20084 notes

“All creative endeavor begins with just fooling around. Enjoy it.” —Cory Doctorow (via mikeballan)

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