Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Presence and Reputation

Wonk Warn­ing (again) Fast typ­ing ahead. it ain’t 100% accu­rate, it ain’t pret­ty. But it’s live.

This was a great pan­el, real­ly well facil­i­tat­ed by Chris­tian Crum­lish, author The Pow­er of the Many. He’s work­ing on a new book, and claims “my scam was to put this pan­el togeth­er, take notes on what they say, and sneak it into my book” Man, that is SO going to be a book if he does so. His online idet­ni­ties are. Xian, medi­a­junkie

Work­shop Intro: No pri­va­cy? Spy on your­self and com­mod­i­fy your atten­tion stream! Count­less rep­re­sen­ta­tions of our­selves flood the net with infor­ma­tion dai­ly. What
is hap­pen­ing to our mod­els of atten­tion? trust? rep­u­ta­tion? Rate my new
fight­ing style unstop­pable and I’ll trade you this arti­fact I forged inWorld of War­craft… Expect a live­ly debate from not­ed experts on atten­tion and iden­ti­ty and skep­tics who think most of the sen­tences above are con­tent-free.

Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Presence and Reputation

Date: Sunday, March 11

Time: 10:00AM—11:00AM

Location: Ballroom F

No pri­va­cy? Spy on your­self and com­mod­i­fy your atten­tion stream! Count­less
rep­re­sen­ta­tions of our­selves flood the net with infor­ma­tion dai­ly. What
is hap­pen­ing to our mod­els of atten­tion? trust? rep­u­ta­tion? Rate my new
fight­ing style unstop­pable and I’ll trade you this arti­fact I forged in
World of War­craft… Expect a live­ly debate from not­ed experts on
atten­tion and iden­ti­ty and skep­tics who think most of the sen­tences
above are con­tent-free.

Speaker(s):

• Christian Crumlish, Pattern Detective, Yahoo!
• Kaliya Hamlin, Super Hero, Identity Woman
• Mary Hodder, CEO, Dabble
• George Kelly, Contra Costa Newspapers
• Ted Nadeau, Founder, Dot Line Inc

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Strange instances of iden­ti­ty, spy­ing on your­self, mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ty, stored search­es, the has­sles of actu­al­ly try­ing to change your name offi­cial­ly.

Kaliya Ham­lin “Iden­ti­ty Wom­an” (Open ID? She asks how many peo­ple have heard of it, but doesn´t explain it.) Name­spaces out of con­trol.. Often heavy net users have 100+ Online iden­ti­ties: skype, yahoo, flickr, phone num­ber, twit­ter, etc etc etc etc. But instead of our iden­ti­ty being owned by indi­vid­u­al con­tent sites, we should own our iden­ti­ty. Six Apart agreed to try to crack this. Behind Iden­ti­ty 2.0 is an XML file that tells you what ser­vices are avail­able. You put a login box on the web­site, adjust user tables, set iden­ti­fiers for peo­ple.

About a dozen peo­ple put up their hands when they are asked if they have an Open ID sign­in on their sense.

Word­Press: you login, it’s a rely­ing par­ty, it queries your i-bro­ker who says that you? you tell the i-bro­ker yep its me either by being logged in or giv­ing the BROKER your pass­word, and the bro­ker than val­i­dates your iden­ti­ty on the rely­ing par­ty. you don´t give the rely­ing par­ty a pass­word. So you only need to remem­ber one for dozens of ser­vices.

Ted Nadeau speak­ing on Rep­u­ta­tion. I don’t give a damn about my bad rep­u­ta­tion. We need to man­age our rep­u­tata­tion in a new way. The small town that we used to live in is now on inter­net scale. So your iden­ti­ty is exposed to the whole earth. More and more peo­ple start know­ing more and more about you. Your non-mon­e­tary assets include influ­ence, inten­tion, atten­tion, rep­u­ta­tion, your strength intel­li­gence wis­dom con­sti­tu­tion etc. They´re exposed and mea­sure­able to all.

Some parts of my iden­ti­ty are assert­ed by me. Some by oth­ers. Some­times a group express­es my iden­ti­ty, and some­times I agree, some­times I don’t. Rep­u­ta­tion is con­nect­ed to your iden­ti­ty: iden­ti­ty is who you tru­ly are, rep­u­ta­tion is per­cep­tions, some of which are accu­rate, some not. But ulti­mate­ly, you are the own­er of your iden­ti­ty, oth­er peo­ple own your rep­u­ta­tion.

173,000,000 pages on Google “Rep­u­ta­tion” but only a hand­ful on del.icio.us. There are mea­sure­ment sys­tems Eigen­Trust: scale of 1 to 5. Cor­ry Doctorow’s Whuffie which you get. iKar­ma. Opin­i­ty: Cre­ate a pow­er­ful portable iden­ti­ty. none com­pelling. Rep­u­ta­tion 1.0 isn´t even here yet. Con­cep­tu­al mod­els, aca­d­e­mic stud­ies, but nobody is cod­ing it yet.

What is it? Rep­u­ta­tion is the gen­er­al opin­ion (jdge­ment) of and by the pub­lic or a group or a per­son toward an enti­ty. It is an ubiq­ui­tous, spon­ta­neous and high­ly effi­cient mech­a­nism of Social Con­trol.

Exam­ples: Hagrid has a rep­u­ta­tion as a mean drunk.

AT&T had a rep­u­ta­tion for inno­va­tion.

Fox News has a rep­u­ta­tion for being biased.

bit rep­u­ta­tion: Apple, Exxon

World Wrestling Fed­er­a­tion: the guy who always cheats.

Poly­the­is­tic Gods: You know how Zeus will behave when Hera picks up a mor­tal.

The Unites States, politi­cians, the inter­net. etc.

EBay rep­u­ta­tion: every­body is above aver­age, lots of backscratch­ing, not very dis­cer­ing, but it works for gener­ic trans­ac­tions. Some­body with no rep­u­ta­tion is untrust­wor­thy.

Pre-inter­net rep­u­ta­tion man­age­ment sys­tems: scar­let let­ter, Grade A meat, UL approved.

What would the per­fect rep­u­ta­tion be like? you should own your own copy of your data sources and key spaces. Symet­tric oth­ers owh theirs. Ahread and agreed by a third par­ty.

Must resolve con­flicts.

Has to have mul­ti­ple views.

Prob­lems: rep­u­ta­tion theft, Rep­u­ta­tion dam­age, loss. Repu­ataion stuck: your fam­i­ly always knows who you are, but you can move to a new city and try a new id with your bowl­ing league. Ide­al sys­tem has to allow that con­tinu­ti­ty AND flex­i­bil­i­ty.

Iden­ti­ty first, Rep­u­ta­tion lat­er.

Call to action next steps. your repu­a­tion what is it, where is it? Let´s start a com­pa­ny. Talk to Xian at his blog!

Mary Hod­der did a great scary but cooly pre­sent­ed piece on Atten­tion Data and how valu­able that is to Google, to Cor­po­ra­tions, to Gov­ern­ments, and how dan­ger­ous it will be if we sim­ply allow that data to be had and seen with­out vig­i­lance, for Democ­ra­cy is at risk. But I had a tech­ni­cal break­down and couldn´t get the word for word.
George Kel­ly, jour­nal­ist:
Kevan.org: inter­ac­tive Johari Win­dow mak­ing per­son­al­i­ty traits a sub­ject of dia­logue between your­self and an audience.Wow. check this site out. 29 of George’s friend rate what are the hid­den things about him and dis­agree with his self assess­ment in places.

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