] recommendations also allow one person to establish a ] trusted, virtual identity in an anonymous way. For ] example, consider alice, an anonymous k2b channel owner. ] After starting one channel and gaining the trust of her ] subscribers (who learned about her channel from the ] prebroadcast catcher or from her anonymous website), ] alice can start new channels and recommend them to her ] subscribers. Perhaps these new channels will be more ] specific than her original channel (like alice_fiction, ] alice_poetry, and alice_paintings), so subscribers can ] pick channels that closely match their interests. In her ] recommendation comments, alice can attest to the fact ] that she owns these new channels. If the subscribers ] trust alice, they can trust that she owns these new ] channels too. If alice has sent high-quality content on ] her original channel, she is likely to send content of ] equal quality on her new channels. ] over time, channel owners with a solid reputations will ] learn to treat recommendations seriously, since those ] who take recommendations lightly will not have solid ] reputations. ! konspire2b: a revolution in mass-scale content distribution |