Note
This page has been migrated from an earlier version of this site. Links and images may be broken.
Regarding reputation-building on the Internet, Clive Thompson writes approvingly that
network algorithms do not favor the cagey or secretive. They favor the prolific, the outgoing, the shameless. > >
Said another way, network algorithms do not favour the quiet or the reflective. They favour the loud-mouthed, the self-promoting, the flashy.
O brave new world that has such algorithms in it.