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	Got Whuffie
		Whuffie recaptured the true essence of money: in the old days, if you were broke but respected, you wouldn't starve; contrariwise, if you were rich and hated, no sum could buy you security and peace.
		I see this exchange as being the backend of the whuffie system - the bloggers aren't blogging for the virtual $$$, the virtual dollars are being invested in those who have the highest reputation (existing) or show the greatest potential to improve reputation.
		There were circles of whuffie, where Julius existed to serve in the arts/experience circles, others would be receiving their whuffie for different aspects.
	joannejacobs.net /pubs/2003/whuffie.html (1631 words)

	Whuffie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A person's Whuffie is a general measurement of his or her overall reputation, and Whuffie is lost and gained according to a person's favorable or unfavorable actions.
		A defender of Whuffie might respond to the first argument by saying that the situation described is already the status quo under the money system, and that the concept of weighted Whuffie helps make better decisions on a person-by-person basis, and thus is more flexible than rating someone by their bank account.
		Increasingly, Whuffie has been used in the phrase Google Whuffie: attempts to increase one's standing at Google, often through illicit means, such as comment, trackback, or referral spam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whuffie (757 words)

	Whuffie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Whuffie has replaced (The most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender) money, providing a motivation for people to do useful and creative things.
		A person's Whuffie is a general measurement of his or her overall (The general estimation that the public has for a person) reputation, and Whuffie is lost and gained according to a person's favorable or unfavorable actions.
		Increasingly, Whuffie has been used in the phrase (Click link for more info and facts about Google) Google Whuffie: attempts to increase ones standing at Google, often through illicit means, such as comment, trackback, or referral spam.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wh/Whuffie.htm (797 words)

	Mischiefblog » Blog Archive » Social games and social accountability
		Whuffie is given by other people when a character does something good or well that is appreciated, and taken away when the character is disliked or causes distress to others.
		Whuffie is a wonderful way of making players accountable to one another: do something good (lead the group or raid well, transfer some gold from one character to another, craft a nice piece of equipment) and the characters can grant whuffie to one another.
		Whuffie grants should be tracked, to some degree, so that circles of whuffie gifting don’t spring up, promoting characters to higher levels of whuffie than they would have otherwise earned on their own.
	www.mischiefbox.com /blog/index.php?p=92 (1264 words)

	pasta and vinegar: what is a whuffie ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Direct Whuffie: this is accrued from people you directly know (0 degrees of separation) or possibly at most 1 degree (people who directly know people you know).
		Indirect Whuffie: this is accrued from people at the 1st and 2nd degree level.
		Unsolicited Whuffie: this is from people at the 3rd degree of separation and/or people you don't know and have never met.
	tecfa.unige.ch /perso/staf/nova/blog/archives/000448.html (221 words)

	AKMA’s Random Thoughts: Magic Kingdom, Indeed
		Doctorow writes with a satisfying deftness, keeping his plot progressing at a an almost cinematic pace (indeed, the novel reads in some ways as a draft for a screenplay, although, regrettably, one canand#8217;t imagine the Disney corporation having the insight to permit such a movie to be made, moreand#8217;s the pity).
		Doctorow writes with a satisfying deftness, keeping his plot progressing at a an almost cinematic pace (indeed, the novel reads in some ways as a draft for a screenplay, although, regrettably, one can’t imagine the Disney corporation having the insight to permit such a movie to be made, more’s the pity).
		Whuffie is the index of reputation on the OpenCola system, which Cory was involved with.
	akma.disseminary.org /archives/000175.html (1601 words)

	whuffie / Social Software Alliance
		Direct Whuffie: this is accrued from people you directly know (0 degrees of separation) or possibly at most 1 degree (people who directly know people you know).
		Indirect Whuffie: this is accrued from people at the 1st and 2nd degree level.
		Unsolicited Whuffie: this is from people at the 3rd degree of separation and/or people you don't know and have never met.
	www.socialtext.net /ssa/index.cgi?whuffie (796 words)

	unbillable hours: September 15, 2003 - September 21, 2003 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		I think the supplemental value of whuffie is, like Nick was pointing out with regard to epinions, in the way it encourages or discourages people to commit to risk, whether financial or romantic or otherwise.
		Over on the Whuffie blog (yes, there is such a thing; no, I did not have anything to do with it; and yes, I am immensely flattered), there's a guest-blogger writing good, scholarly critical analysis of the economics of the Bitchun Society, the world in which my novel is set.
		The problem (OK, a problem) with Whuffie is that it lacks a lot of the critical stuff that makes up the fundamentals of democratic infrastructure, like protection for minority opinions.
	unbillablehours.typepad.com /unbillablehours/2003/week38 (6291 words)

	Richard Giles blog: More On Whuffie. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Raph seems to be an expert on whuffie, too good not to quote here.
		Google's PageRank is also a decent model of Whuffie in the web world.
		By contrast, "AKMA has lots of Whuffie" clearly identifies the opinion as coming from someone who is very up to date in the online world.
	www.richardgiles.net /blog/archives/000217.html (342 words)

	Bookfilter \| Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Book Discussions and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		According to Doctorow, whuffie is generated dynamically; at any given time, the global computer network is magically able to discern what everyone thinks about everyone else (by parsing their current mental states) and assign whuffie accordingly.
		The whuffie itself is a deterent againts crime, or at least to some extent.
		But it appears that Whuffie is infinite and can be generated by anyone who approves of you for any reason (thus the nano-ants in the "lost" chapter).
	www.bookfilter.com /link.php/137 (2619 words)

	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
		Whuffie is earned and spent on things that only humans can provide: services, art, and entertainment.
		That is, if they have the Whuffie to make their take-over stick.
		Of course, ousting a Whuffie-rich ad-hoc costs the insurgents Whuffie, but if they have enough to spare they might be able to do it.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Mar03/magickingdom.htm (743 words)

	Freshwaste » Whuffie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The concept of "Whuffie" in Doctorow's first book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom comes as close as I've seen to articulating a space where attention means everything.
		Whuffie goes up and down based on whether people like you, recognition for deeds you perfrom, and just about everything else.
		Just as or more interesting than Whuffie in the novel is the way in which Doctorow seems to be trying to live by the same principle, in part by releasing the novel electronically at the same time it hits physical bookshelves.
	www.freshwaste.com /item/16 (1162 words)

	Sam Ruby: Whuffie Web
		Most everyone else has much less Whuffie, thus their query powers are much less.
		I somehow doubt that the Whuffie Web, if it were to take off in a big way, would work to equal benefit for everyone.
		The Whuffie Web II What I believe we are seeing is domain experts seeking each other out.
	www.intertwingly.net /blog/1645.html (251 words)

	Tohu Bohu
		That is, the first decision (let’s bypass normal procedure to screw with the ride) is put over on sympathy whuffie and a cute girl.
		It was pretty much who had managed to use the best pathetic rhetoric (that is, rhetoric using pathos) to convince the ad-hoc that the other guy had weapons of mass destruction.
		This combined with the bizarre ups and downs of Dan’s whuffie, where he goes from sky-high to zero and back up and back down without noticeably changing his actual character, seems to make whuffie-based decision-making so obviously bad that it barely seems worth using it to spark discussion.
	www.kith.org /vardibidian/journal/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=2507 (571 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Whuffie is the basis of the new world's economy.
		A rival ad-hoc, led by the vicious schemer Debra, has staged a coup at the Hall of the Presidents, and now seems to have their sights set on the Haunted Mansion.
		His reorganization of society into ad-hocs craving Whuffie derives a lot from present-day cyber-culture (Slashdot, and all that), and his biomorphic mutability seems positively Extropian.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue304/books.html (895 words)

	LawMeme - Aaron Swartz Invents Proto Whuffie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		"Whuffie" is the term that author and EFF activist Cory Doctorow coined for reputation based currency in his excellent first novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom [go read it - it can be downloaded in about a gazillion formats - Ed].
		It is a pretty interesting concept, actually, and there is even a Whuffie Blog.
		Whuffie is simply not ready for prime time.
	research.yale.edu /lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1208&mode=&order=0&thold=0 (1558 words)

	Cory's got a lot of whuffie
		And with only 8500 hardcover copies printed, I'll make a pretty good bet that this will one day be a very valuable first edition, since it's going to be one of the classics of the genre.
		All the more so because he already has lots of whuffie, and many people are happy to reward him for putting his book where his heart is (open source, p2p, etc).
		But the success will have more to do with the fact that he is engaged in a grand experiment than with the fact that it is a very good book.
	www.oreillynet.com /cs/user/view/wlg/2853 (451 words)

	Strange Attractor: Social networking Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		People like Searls, Gillmor and Rosen have whuffie in spades, and this is why they can start snowballs rolling downhill and why those snowballs grow as they go.
		Hugh Macleod, for example, has so much whuffie that all he has to do is fart and the trackbacks start rolling in.
		The trouble is that there are a couple of whuffie Catch-22s going on: firstly, those who have whuffie get more whuffie and those with none find it hard to build up.
	www.corante.com /strange/archives/cat_social_networking.php (2902 words)

	Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom » News
		Joseph Petviashvili is a fan of my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — he likes it so much that he’s created a software version of “Whuffie,” the reputation currency that forms the basis of the Bitchun Society I described in the book.
		Bitchun.org is runs on open source code (still in alpha release), creating a marketplace for trading and rewarding favors for your friends and like-minded strangers.
		Whuffie is a high five, it’s that look of appreciation you give for a job well done, it’s a thumbs up.
	www.craphound.com /down (880 words)

	Second sight, Feb 6 \| Technology \| Guardian Unlimited Technology
		Instead, what they aspire to is "Whuffie", which serves some of the functions of currency, but is much closer to such concepts as "the approval of your peers" or "respect".
		Early on, one of the characters argues that Whuffie captures "the true essence of money [...]; if you were broke but respected, you wouldn't starve".
		As such, it reflects what's usually called the American interpretation of copyright: that creators must receive something for their works otherwise no one will be motivated to publish anything.
	technology.guardian.co.uk /online/story/0,3605,889293,00.html (672 words)

	William Shunn - A Rogue's Gallery - The Whuffie Starts Here
		That's the brilliant device at the heart of Cory's novel, the one that sucks you into his future world of near-immortality and reputation-based economics (or "whuffie") and makes you complicit in his audacious reworking of tomorrow's Liberty Square.
		I anticipate a desire among fans of the book to visit the sites where it (took/will take) place, sort of like hitting the Stations of the Cross in a Catholic cathedral, and snap photos proving they were there.
		Hoping to be the first to do so, and maybe thereby accumulate some whuffie of my own, I present the "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Whuffie Ring," a web ring to let people link up their Down and Out fan pages.
	www.shunn.net /bill/rogue/whuffie.html (518 words)

	Ambient Irony: Whuffie
		Doctorow, he does point out in this interview that his society would not function as described; and that it would need:
		Whuffie is the measure of respect in the society of Down and Out; more than that, it's that society's equivalent of cash - as much as it has any equivalent.
		Of course, unless you've brainwashed 100% of the population, the anti-trust laws or garbage collectors will need to be backed up by the men with the you-know-whats.
	ambientirony.mu.nu /Archives/000030.html (104 words)

	jacob.hesch.cc: So much Whuffie in the air
		He read from chapter six of his excellent first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (which I happen to be reading currently--I'm on chapter five, so his reading made for a nice preview), and also from his upcoming book Eastern Standard Tribe.
		I asked Cory what inspired his use of the word Whuffie for the currency in the reputation economy of Down and Out.
		First he discounted the theory someone had suggested to him that it's a contraction of Whit Diffie--a plausible explanation since Whuffie must have some kind of inherent crypto system.
	jacob.hesch.cc /archives/000049.html (188 words)

	Mini-review: ''Down and out in the Magic Kingdom'' (Anders Jacobsen's blog)
		Part monetary currency, part a human "Google PageRank"; the Whuffie "reputation currency" measures a citizen's popularity and respect from other people.
		Whuffie can be earned like one can earn respect and even money in today's world, or in the way webloggers earn inbound links from others on the web: by doing work, by sharing valuable content, by writing stuff people respect and discuss.
		Ben Hammersley lists it as one of the "25 technologies and notions we think hold most promise over the next year" and I agree: this would be damn cool to see implemented in the future!
	www.jacobsen.no /anders/blog/archives/2003/05/13/minireview_down_and_out_in_the_magic_kingdom.html (292 words)

	Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Enterprise Whuffie
		He quotes my term for Google's social networking service Orkut, "frictionless whuffie fun," and relates the role of relationships within the enterprise.
		At stake in all this: enterprise whuffie, the reputation of importance that employees would be able to acquire by becoming known as experts in different areas.
		However, the all-important whuffie would be a powerful incentive for sharing information more broadly.
	ross.typepad.com /blog/2004/02/enterprise_whuf.html (525 words)

	Q&A: Cory Doctorow / Science-fiction novelist on Disney, Whuffie, Napster and what's wrong with San Francisco
		Whuffie is how much esteem people hold you in.
		As currency is a rough approximation of your Whuffie, the things that currency affords, like your style of dress, your haircut, all the semiotics of your presentation, are descended from Whuffie.
		In some ways, Whuffie is a way to make you more socially normative.
	www.sfgate.com /technology/inquire (2436 words)

	Raw: Whuffie Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Were the Semantic Web to take off in a big and easy to use way, people could spend more time creating answers and less time answering questions, since the machines do the job of fielding the questions themselves.
		There is an angle Les doesn't mention - the A-listers may have a Whuffie stockpile (the early bloggers got share options when they started the game), but this is wildcard Whuffie.
		If social and topical networks are keyed in, along with domain-focussed rather than person-focussed data sources (like Wikis) then it's possible to narrow the search field right down.
	dannyayers.com /archives/002022.html (464 words)

	Ramblings of a Technology Addict
		If your Whuffie score is high, you are both rich and powerful.
		If your Whuffie score is low, you are powerless and poor.
		Worse yet, your Whuffie score is public, people can pull up your Whuffie score on the fly and see that you are either someone of decent respectability, or see that you truly are a jackass.
	radio.weblogs.com /0116463/2003/02/24.html (833 words)

	Whuffie and the snowball. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns from the chaos that is the blogosphere. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		I think whuffie is mainly of concern to the young, but I disagree that it's irrelevent to older people.
		The thing is, people like Doc have so much whuffie, and have had whuffie for a long while, that it's possible to forget what it's like not to have whuffie, and that there's a large percentage of the population who are whuffie-free.
		I'm not complaining that Doc has too much whuffie, or saying that the amount of whuffie he does have is unfair.
	corante.com /strange/archives/2005/03/28/whuffie_and_the_snowball.php (2728 words)

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