Publicy is a term coined (or at least signal-boosted to me) by Jeff Kaufman in a series of posts (beginning with JeffTK | Giving Up on Privacy, JeffTK | Publicy and Notification, and JeffTK | A Right to Publicy) that I think is pretty great, because it's intuition-bending in a way that's reflective of the way the digital world is shaping up to be different from the physical one. (See also: Wiki | Sousveillance.)

Tyler Cowen (of MR) recently pointed to an article by the NYT about an interesting non-privacy which seems somehow related (NYT | Ratings Now Cut Both Ways, so Don't Sass Your Uber Driver):

"Highly specific pools of reputation information will become more useful in aggregate," said Mr. Fertik, co-author with David C. Thompson of "The Reputation Economy," a guide to optimizing digital footprints. "If you're a really good Uber passenger, that may be useful information for Amtrak or American Airlines. But if you add in your reputation from Airbnb plus OpenTable plus eBay, it starts to get useful globally." (...)

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I'd like to have publicy (note: not publicity) as a reasonably responsible, nice person who can be trusted with things, from cash which isn't mine (because I'm not going to steal it) to charity in discourse (because I'm really trying to make a good-faith effort to understand things when I discuss them), to people's time an attention (because I have things to say which they might want to hear). I mean, basically everyone would like publicy as [good thing] for most values of [good thing], deserved or not, so what I really mean is, "I believe I am [X], and would benefit from having