I’ve been reflecting how trust works on the internet, and specifically the blogosphere.When people discuss ‘trusted computing’ online, it’s usually in terms of ‘being ‘an authenticated user, meaning that they are who they say they are. Since much of the activity online is either anonymously (although no one is ever truly anonymous) or pseudonomous, then reputation is based on what you do (or don’t do) and what you contribute to your given group.
To quickly sum up what this means, here are some of the reputation metrics that I scribbled down:
