Eric Mariacher: HOW DOES QUANTITY BRING QUALITY?

I have been on LinkedIn a little over one month and I now have more than 280 connections and have had a bunch of quality contact with people I would have otherwise never have met. I in fact was just invited by a guy named Eric from Switzerland and his blog has this wonderful explanation of why quantity does bring a quality to your connections on LinkedIn.
I stand by this ideal and it is how I operate on LinkedIn:

Eric Mariacher: HOW DOES QUANTITY BRING QUALITY?