] I pinged the elf. He had a lot of left-handed Whuffie;
] respect garnered from people who shared very few of my
] opinions. I expected that. What I didn't expect was that
] his weighted Whuffie score, the one that lent extra credence
] to the rankings of people I respected, was also high — higher
] than my own. I regretted my nonlinear behavior even more.
] Respect from the elf — Tim, I had to remember to call him
] Tim — would carry a lot of weight in every camp that
] mattered.

A short excerpt from Cory Doctorow's new novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, which seems to have some, ehem, familiar ideas.

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