> Topsy is the first real implementation of a large scale reputation network for the general public.
What if you never have, don't now, and never intend to "Tweet"?
What if you never have, don't now, and never intend to "Tweet"?
That is a tough question for every repnet out there though, what about people that don't have a digital footprint. Maybe topsy will start indexing the real world too, at some point ;)
Perhaps people will become invisible if they don't participate in any of these "social media" activities. The world will belong to the ego-centric, narcissistic, I-can-shout-louder-than-you generation.
In the news and broadcast media insight is being lost in the tsunami of attention-grabbing, 10-seconds-at-a-time sensationalism.
Is this good? Does it matter? Is it inevitable?
Should I get a blog and moan about it?
Not to get too philosophical here, but I'm pretty sure the world has always belonged to this group of people in each generation. Or at least it has appeared to since they're loader than everyone else.
I think this is definitely a big problem that topsy or any other reputation based system will have to work around but if you're busy building amazing stuff, at some point you will be recognized, by getting lots of users talking about you, or people writing about you, etc.
What makes topsy different is that the people behind it have been thinking about it for a while. From one of their previous projects:
CODD is a tool for creating and analyzing statistical measures of "developer involvement" in free software projects. By assimilating authorship attribution information included in source files of a package, CODD approximates the the amount of individual contributions from developers who constructed the codebase. CODD also provides many tools for analysis of the attribution data. CODD was used in the First Orbiten Free Software Survey. It has since been extended for International Institute of Infonomics that uses CODD in open source research.