I'm on the hunt for reputation/certification systems, a la advogato/mod_virgule, slashdot, and kuro5hin. I found a simple alternet story, too. And someone somewhere mentioned Aura, which I have yet to read about.

I'm particularly interested in hearing about persistent rep/cert systems that (in your opinion) tend to accurately reflect people's rep. In other words I'd like to find out about ones you find effective ;). I'm most interested in hearing about communities with a small core, not too much turnover in that core, but a lot of "fringe participators".

E-mail me, please! I'll summarise and acknowledge, yada yada. TIA!

PostgreSQL and IBM's patent application for ARC

Haven't seen this show up anywhere else yet; it's a GeneralBits discussion of the patent issues surrounding the "Adaptive Replacement Cache". The ARC algorithm is in PostgreSQL 8.0, but IBM has applied for a patent. What to do? Read on...

HunterFest

Three HST items: writing a Taschen book, surprised he's still alive, and Breakfast with Hunter. The movie looks fantastic...

Old Software

dominion. Didn't know this was still lying around! That's my first collaborative code project... And hey, here's my first publicly posted software project, 'ring'. Sheesh, June 1991...

--titus