Bulldog Reporter - Daily Dog | Previous Stories | Regaining Trust and Credibility in ‘08: Making the Press, Politics and PR Personal Again
For any individual or organization seeking to establish and grow trust with others, there is a self-evident prerequisite to doing so—being personally credible.
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The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture
Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance. They arise in populations that do not have significant material-scarcity problems with survival goods.
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[iDC] Some notes on value...
Brands are a form of ethical capital: they build on the ability and desire of free (that is not entirely commanded) actors to create community, in the absence of given hierarchies or monetary obligations.
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Reputation 101 - How to protect your brand online | Distilled blog
Not only that but by following the tips given in the various excellent reputation monitoring guides you should be able to protect you or your company from any reputation management issues going forward.
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Crowd control at eBay
EBay has been struggling for some time with growing discontent among its members, and it has rolled out a series of new controls and regulations to try to stem the erosion of trust in its market.
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Reputation: where the personal and the participatory meet up
online and offline reputations are merging, causing our academic careers, jobs, and personal associations increasingly to rest on what we do online.
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The Future of Reputation
The full text of The Future of Reputation is now available online for free.
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BBC NEWS | Business | EBay to ban negative seller views
Online auction site eBay has said it plans to overhaul its feedback system and will ban sellers from leaving negative comments about buyers.
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Certifications and Site Trustworthiness
Writing tough rules isn't easy, and enforcing them is even harder. Hard-hitting rules are particularly unlikely when certification authorities get paid for each certification they issue -- but get nothing for rejecting an applicant.
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University Research, Think Tanks, and the Press
Think tank research is bad because it is funded mainly from the greedy and somewhat evil private sector, while university research is mostly good since it is funded mostly by the saintly, just and good governments that we all love.
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The Invisible College
The turbocharging of the public sphere of information and debate [...] is a principal reason that governments finance and donors give to universities. Web logs may well be becoming an important part of that last university mission.
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Overconfident Economists Give Economics a Bad Name
The expert social scientists in the study displayed high confidence that they were right, but those who assigned a confidence rating of about 80 percent or higher were correct only about 45 percent of the time.
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How Accurate Are Your Pet Pundits?
A modest proposal that applies to all democracies: the marketplace of ideas works better if it is easier for citizens to see the trade-offs between accuracy and entertainment, or between accuracy and party loyalty.
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'Economic Man' vs. 'Status Man'
I suspect that the most likely alternative to economic motivation is a worse motive: status-seeking. I believe that is more important to curb our lust for status than our lust for goods and services.
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Systems for Collective Choice
When developing social software it is important to understand the difference between these broad categories of systems and to use lessons already learned from the appropriate category in your own social software designs.
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Trendy media
Are kids learning about other search engines or skills? Are they developing a critical attitude to information so that they don’t just move from trusting the all-knowing teacher/priest/parent to trusting the all-knowing Google?
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Stealing from the Oil Companies
Reneging on existing deals, even bad ones, is disastrous. If the government can, in effect, steal from private companies whenever that generates good PR for politicians, the incentives for investment and exploration diminish markedly.
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It's Not Dangerous
No matter how great you are, your career depends on communicating. The way to get better at anything, including communication, is by practicing. Blogging is good practice.
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Thanks so much for the invite, Mr. Fundraiser!
Blogs are not effective because they accelerate the spread of just content, information, data. They are effective because they can rapidly build or flatline reputations.
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