Seriously, is it mainly street cred. It’s really hard to be a crossover personality. I think that mainly happens by being really awesome at one thing, and then being really awesome at one more thing simultaneously, and then being above average at another one or two things. Ashton Kutcher’s probably a great example of that.

I haven’t studied whuffie personally, but from what I gather, whuffie becomes the foundation or the medium in which you can transfer your props from niche to niche.  It’s basically the amount of cred that’s attached to anything you say, based on how you carried yourself in your other fields of “expertise”.

If that’s the case, then weighing too much in the niche aspect of what you’re discussing, in this case, dating advice, isn’t going to help you if you want to be known in the tech sector.  You’d actually rather be known as generally personable, friendly, gregarious, intelligent and knowledgeable if you want to be popular as a crossover personality.