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Lurkers Rule In Other Words

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 at 3:54 pm

“The 1% Rule”:http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html goes like this:
It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
See also Nick Carr’s post about “Digg statistics”:http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/08/few_to_many.php which roughly illustrates [...]

Wikkity Wack

Thursday, May 12th, 2005 at 2:17 pm

TiddlyWiki gives birth to GTDTiddlyWiki. In my youth, I may have stood a chance. Now, all I can say is: your Kung-Fu is the best.

Reinventing the Killer App

Saturday, April 17th, 2004 at 11:19 pm

Tim O’Reilly’s thoughts on GMail and how Google is shaping how we use the internet before our very eyes:

Gmail is fascinating to me as a watershed event in the evolution of the internet. In a brilliant Copernican stroke, gmail turns everything on its head, rejecting the personal computer as the center of the computing universe, [...]

Yahoo in 1994. Ah those

Monday, January 22nd, 2001 at 8:48 am

Yahoo in 1994. Ah those heady days of HTML 1.0. The links look like they still work.
In my ongoing attempt to keep myself occupado and grounded in things non-technical, I’ve been doing origami. It’s an amazing artform - full of purpose and intent, yet it quiets the mind like nothing else I can recently remember. [...]