The rules were simple: I look at your website for 20 seconds, and you look at mine.
In the neon-soaked basement of a Tokyo high-rise, Kenji watched the "Hit Counter" on his screen climb like a fever. He was a pioneer of the , a digital ghost town where everyone was a billboard and no one was a customer. TRAFFIC EXCHANGE
Kenji froze. The hit counter on his own site—a blog about urban solitude—suddenly spiked. +1, +5, +500. The traffic wasn't coming from the exchange. It was coming from a single IP address located in his own building. The rules were simple: I look at your