What about whuffie? "Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow's sci-fi novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie
Laurie "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953 On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Silicon Shaman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I... have some reservations about "points", in that its already an >> > overloaded term in various financial ways, and suggests it's not real >> > money. >> >> If we're trying to come up with something that is equivalent to points or >> credits or gold/geld that doesn't sound like a currency, isn't twee, and has >> some faint relevance to the name of the service, how about "measures"? I'd >> say "scribbles," but that probably veers too far into the realm of cute. >> principia_coh >> Alexis > > How about Quatloos then? Except I think Paramount has the copyright on > that...[although it seems to be being used elsewhere]. > > I agree that dreams sounds a bit twee and would get old fast .. but how > about notions? It's close enough to both dream and note [as in currency], > but far enough I think, that it should be ok. Failing that, how about we > just call them A.U's as in Accounting Units. [and it's a bit of a nod in the > direction of gold and money]. > > or, you know we could just hold a naming contest after it's up and running, > and let the users decide. > > -- > Silicon.shaman > Subversives 'R' Us > Cogito ergo periculosus, > [ I think, therefore I'm dangerous ]. > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
