Too many topics, too little time

Economics of Love. [Mopsos][via ScaleFree] Anu was hooked by this quote “Ultimately, the economics of knowledge have something to do with the economics of love.”

What's lurve got to do with it ? Well it's the extreme end of implicit trust, and we all know trust is the number one item in information at the moment. Top level of the W3C model, FOAF and the bozo-bit to name a few examples. Without it there is no knowledge worth sharing. [Psybertron Knowledge Modelling WebLog]

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well, this is one of the big questions of all time i think. what is the motivation for these social infrastructures to really work, beyond the original cool factor.