That power can take the form of reputation, adulation, or the thrill of knowing oneself to be the orchestrator of others' fates — of being a sort of mini-god.
When corporations engage in transparency practices, it is not altruistic by any means: it is a form of reputation management.
This leads me to a dangerous question: Are we creating an impression in the Government 2.0 movement that tools like upgraded websites and social media are the solution to better government, just resulting in a form of reputation management when under the surface, the government still may not work?
We already see various forms of reputation and recommendation systems evolve, often with mixtures of pre-selected experts or professionals.
The two day, non-stop event, which has existed in different forms since 2009, has built the sort of reputation exclusive to certain types of festivals.
In order to compel, for example, reluctant landlords or awkward tenants to participate, some form of online reputation system - such as that used on the TripAdvisor website - might have to be created, Susskind suggested.
I think we'll see some form of the reputation graph become integrated with almost every transaction and interaction we have.
The judge ruled that the government's proposed action prior to a judicial review will cause KindHearts to "suffer serious and irreparable injury in the form of loss of reputation and goodwill".
An example of explicit control is the provision of incentives to users, e.g., in the form of competition, rewards, reputation, etc., to participate in information propagation when their interest itself in the propagated topic is limited, decreasing in this way the probability that information propagation on a specific subject deceases fast enough.
Now, the Cambridge police force will pay in the form of a damaged reputation and, perhaps, even monetarily too.
As a result, she said, the five functions now performed by universities — teaching; providing a space for social interaction; testing students' knowledge and offering feedback in the form of grades; cultivating a reputation as a good place to learn; and certifying what graduates know through accreditation — will inevitably change.
