Incidents like the one Dan Gillmor points to reminds me that I need to put more thought into noise control. Let see…

One idea is cookie sharing combined with cookie persistence. Cookie persistence works by allow people to download and save their cookies so they can restore valuable cookies after cookie wipeout or if they change machines. Cookie sharing is one cookie holder giving part of the rating they earned to another. It's like giving some of your voice to another person whose opinions you agree with or appreciate.

A lot of room for creativity in this area.

Update:

Flip-side of the Cookie sharing is mutual destruction which requires giving up part of your rating to degrade another person's rating. I am still clueless as to whether such small set of rules will lead to a stable world instead of something that will blow up. Still, I enjoy working with combining simple rules to build complex systems, probably because of my physics background.

Another thought I had was that, for systems like Wikipedia, unbiased views are sometimes either not possible or premature. In such cases, I think the right thing to od is to record multiple biased/opposing views to capture the conflict in its raw form instead.

My last chat with Steve Gillmor left me a little sad because, it seemed to me, he was fighting the world, trying to drag it to where he thinks it should go. I find myself all to often in that position so I felt sympathy. What is worse, his profession didn't jive with his ambition.

But it looks like he is, or at least attempting to, escape from that frame of mind. So hurrah for Steve. In my view, Steve's best role is to be the bouncing surface for the technical world because I think his intellect, wisdom, and opinions can make anything interesting.

Whalers are wailing but soon it will be anti-whalers who will be wailing. What a crappy world.

What did I get for Father's Day? Moleskines: a pocket addressbook and a fullsize notebook. Along with the pocket notebook I had, it's almost a family. I'll have to get a mama moleskine (fullsize diary) though so the papa moleskine (fullsize notebook) won't feel lonely. And perhaps a fully figured sketchbook from Volant on the side…

I wish there were money boxes for musicians for people who download music illegally for convenience sake. I know it's kind of crazy but at least the money will go directly to the musicians. That is if they claim the unofficial donation boxes. If Paypal is interested, we can open an unofficial donation box for every musician that every lived for people to pour money into and assign a trust to help the musicians claim the boxes. Officially, they are just donations unrelated to anything so music publishers will have some difficulty getting their unfair share.

As frownable as the idea is, I think it's possibly a practical way to cut the sagging sack and connect the emerging dots, if you know what I mean.

That asterisk is a wildcard, not a star. The way I see it, he has done amazing things for Microsoft inside and out. How he does it is just as amazing. He is to Microsoft what the Schrodinger's cat is to Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: his observations of Microsoft and the view of world beyond it changes the company itself, from the ground up!

So I think he should be freed from his Longhorn/TabletPC chains and let loose with simply the asterisk as his job title, meaning his role is to simply do what he has been doing for the company: the wildcard. He is smart enough to know when to swing and when to duck so I doubt he'll get into anything he can't get out of as long as the company knows he is just doing his job. I know he is not perfect but imperfect is part of his magic formula, whatever that is. Meow.