Short summary of the posted link: It's now a commonplace idea that online reputation and attention often translate into real world economic gains. This article

Short summary of the posted link: It's now a commonplace idea that online reputation and attention often translate into real world economic gains. This article (and a similar article the same author wrote for Wired in the early 90s) seems to have been one of the original sources for this idea, and still makes for stimulating reading. Goldhaber also has an interesting blog at http://www.goldhaber.org/ http://www.goldhaber.org/