(2004-02-01) Reputation Vs Social Networks

Clay Shirky on Theresa Senft's piece "Against Reputation".

I think the biggest problem with the Social Networking sites is the lack of purpose, resulting in a lack of Context to anchor the Model-s.

Perhaps Marc Canter should tweak the OpenReviews vocabulary to make a version for reviewing people in the context of actual meaningful interactions/transactions. That would be some real Reputation Management...