tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4323202250325013491.post-21967935428074239052008-03-28T09:38:00.000-05:002008-03-28T09:38:00.000-05:00One possibility is that the Internet makes expertise more "discoverable" via the intermediaries of search engines *and* social networks. Of course, both of these intermediaries present their own possibilities for distortion. However, the general effect seems to be to widen the playing field.<BR/><BR/>At the end of the 90's, there was a prophetic comment in a Harvard Business Review article to the effect that Internet navigation services would become a high value business proposition. Maybe, in some ways, that was obvious even then. But, wow.Budhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890564471631569204noreply@blogger.com