Reputations

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Author

Tom Slee

Published

May 25, 2007

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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.