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title: Why RedMonk is winning friends and influencing people
date: 2006-03-09T20:43:56Z
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Great quote from Michael Goldfarber, the Einstein of Attention.

> “The best guarantee for attention is living your life as openly as possible, expressing yourself as publicly as possible as early as possible.” Information attracts attention: to get attention, you need to give information. Receiving information makes you influential. There’s a definition we came to that suggests that influence is the amount of attention you get relative to the amount of attention you give.
> 
> People can receive attention even when they’re not there. If you’re reading a Thomas Hardy book, Thomas Hardy is receiving attention even though he’s long gone. That goes through his reputation, his fame, etc.”

[Thanks Nat from o’Reilly](http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/radar/atom?m=759)!