by Mark Gibbs

This Week in Backspin: Entropy, Identity, and Reputation

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Oct 2, 20061 min

In Backspin this week I discuss how identities qualified by reputation can prevent the entropic death of Wikipedia’s content and benefit on-line transactions of all kinds.

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by Mark Gibbs

Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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