Here’s a comment I made on an article by Brian Solis on www.socialmediatoday.com titled “The Evolution of a new trust Economy” check it out below

Great Article, in a sense you are implying that internet users have a virtual capital “webcred” that they are building. I think unlike real (face to face) social interaction, where managing personas because difficult when we factor in our many roles and role conflicts, the internet creates a path for exploring multiple personas with out any role strain. In fact a persona could build spectacular Webcred as both a sinner and a saint without much conflict, except of course when they are important enough to warrant investigation.

This is the type of landscape that made me begin exploring ideas that eventually lead to the creation of http://www.baduku.com , the topic review webspace seemed to become ever so inundated by psuedo-ethnographers.

Sociology is divided between two types (to make a simple example) between ethnographers and statisticians. I think of bloggers who write these daunting 10 pages of review on a topic as the ethnographers of the world. They are participant observers of the world and can expose the topic in detail to the rest of the world.
But the internet is now being crowded by opinions, people who seem like ethnographers but they don’t go into the detail necessary to make a detailed point.

Lastly on the far end of the spectrum are the statisticians, who consolidate interpret the totality of opinions, the macro view. It is this field that has yet been tapped into, until recently by www.baduku.com. Baduku plays the role of the statistician because it collects aggregated opinions and ranks it based on consensus there by creating macro view of a topic landscape for the world to interpret easily on their own.

We believe that this type of macro consolidation of opinions for the purpose of review, will become more popular and powerful in the near future. It won’t replace detailed internet ethnographers like cnet, dpreview, etc, but rather it will compliment them. True sociologist will always look at both the statistical data and the ethnography and identify the convergent data to make valued interpretation.

Great Article, in a sense you are implying that internet users have a virtual capital “webcred” that they are building. I think unlike real (face to face) social interaction, where managing personas because difficult when we factor in our many roles and role conflicts, the internet creates a path for exploring multiple personas with out any role strain. In fact a persona could build spectacular Webcred as both a sinner and a saint without much conflict, except of course when they are important enough to warrant investigation.

This is the type of landscape that made me begin exploring ideas that eventually lead to the creation of http://www.baduku.com , the topic review webspace seemed to become ever so inundated by psuedo-ethnographers.

Sociology is divided between two types (to make a simple example) between ethnographers and statisticians. I think of bloggers who write these daunting 10 pages of review on a topic as the ethnographers of the world. They are participant observers of the world and can expose the topic in detail to the rest of the world.

But the internet is now being crowded by opinions, people who seem like ethnographers but they don’t go into the detail necessary to make a detailed point.

Lastly on the far end of the spectrum are the statisticians, who consolidate interpret the totality of opinions, the macro view. It is this field that has yet been tapped into, until recently by www.baduku.com. Baduku plays the role of the statistician because it collects aggregated opinions and ranks it based on consensus there by creating macro view of a topic landscape for the world to interpret easily on their own.

We believe that this type of macro consolidation of opinions for the purpose of review, will become more popular and powerful in the near future. It won’t replace detailed internet ethnographers like cnet, dpreview, etc, but rather it will compliment them. True sociologist will always look at both the statistical data and the ethnography and identify the convergent data to make valued interpretation.

Great Article, in a sense you are implying that internet users have a virtual capital “webcred” that they are building. I think unlike real (face to face) social interaction, where managing personas because difficult when we factor in our many roles and role conflicts, the internet creates a path for exploring multiple personas with out any role strain. In fact a persona could build spectacular Webcred as both a sinner and a saint without much conflict, except of course when they are important enough to warrant investigation.This is the type of landscape that made me begin exploring ideas that eventually lead to the creation of http://www.baduku.com , the topic review webspace seemed to become ever so inundated by psuedo-ethnographers.Sociology is divided between two types (to make a simple example) between ethnographers and statisticians. I think of bloggers who write these daunting 10 pages of review on a topic as the ethnographers of the world. They are participant observers of the world and can expose the topic in detail to the rest of the world.But the internet is now being crowded by opinions, people who seem like ethnographers but they don’t go into the detail necessary to make a detailed point.Lastly on the far end of the spectrum are the statisticians, who consolidate interpret the totality of opinions, the macro view. It is this field that has yet been tapped into, until recently by www.baduku.com. Baduku plays the role of the statistician because it collects aggregated opinions and ranks it based on consensus there by creating macro view of a topic landscape for the world to interpret easily on their own.We believe that this type of macro consolidation of opinions for the purpose of review, will become more popular and powerful in the near future. It won’t replace detailed internet ethnographers like cnet, dpreview, etc, but rather it will compliment them. True sociologist will always look at both the statistical data and the ethnography and identify the convergent data to make valued interpretation.