[Sigia-l] Web 2.0 99% bad

[Andrew Boyd]

On 5/16/07, Christopher Fahey <chris.fahey at behaviordesign.com> wrote:

> Compare unique visitors to registered users of any social media site for
> similar numbers. Look at the number of people who lurk vs. contribute on
> mailing lists, including this one. Look at your own surfing habits and
> those of the people around you for anecdotal evidence of this. When was
> the last time anyone you know contributed to Wikipedia?

In the last couple of weeks, Matthew Hodgson and myself, Knowledge
Worker 2.0 article.

Added contacts in the past week and sought information via LinkedIn?
About a dozen of my first-generation contacts.

Contributed to discussions in the past week on Tangler? Three personal
friends/colleagues and multiple online correspondees (where personal
== people I would see in meatspace at least once a week).

Blogged and commented on other people's blogs in the past week? At
least four personal friends/colleagues that I know of, guessing that
there are many more that I do not interact with blogospherically.

This is only answering your rhetorical question... but like I said
before, numbers of people outside of the immediate context have no
significance at all if that context is big enough to support the
associated community. I do not know or care if everyone is using
Tangler - but I do care if enough of my colleagues and professional
associates are using it to make my use worthwhile. Social computing
does not need to be totally everywhere for it to work for me or anyone
else - it does need to be big enough to be useful.

Cheers, Andrew

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Andrew Boyd
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