I'm presently a Master's student at Northwestern University and I am presently taking a knowledge management course that has a heavy component of social network analysis.

Our professor recommended your blog (and a handful of others) to learn more about KM and SNA.

I work in government in my non-student life, and found this post very compelling.

Do you think that the rapid information flow of online communities can help to expose the "crooked" brokers while boosting the reputations of those that actually help foster connections and create value for society?

There are always bad apples to spoil the barrel - instead of completely starting over, do you think it would be wise to find, protect, and market the truly good people in broker roles and then move forward from there?