fyi: "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on theInternet" by Solove

[=JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@neustar.biz>]

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
by Daniel J. Solove
<http://books.google.com/books?id=42nJLWB0ztYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=solove+reputation>

I'm presently reading this book. While it doesn't describe any particular 
reputation system per se, it does describe (real-life) reputation,  "use cases" 
perhaps, in both realspace and cyberspace, and analyses how the Law may or may 
not serve to facilitate balance between (online and realspace) reputations (and 
defamation thereof), privacy (and invasions thereof), and anonymity.

It's well worth reading IMV.

=JeffH