{"id":2218,"date":"2007-05-02T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2007-05-02T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T17:33:00","slug":"2218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2218","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

SIX DEGREES OF PARTICIPATION<\/b><\/p>\n

Tech guru Ross Mayfield<\/strong> <\/a>has an important post “Social Technographics and a Power Law of Participation<\/a>” that would be of interest to most serious bloggers. In it, Mayfield analyzes the results of a demographic study that examined the nature and degree of interactivity of participation on the Web, displayed in the visual hierarchy below:<\/p>\n

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A closer look at Mayfield’s visualization can be found here at Flickr<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

An excerpt:

“I still contend that a more ideal community is scale free in structure. What I wonder is if you could benchmark these levels of engagement against a power law — not just to test Forrester’s findings, but to help a given company realize — “we are under-weighted in critics!”<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>

<\/span>LOL! I agree. Try to love your critics. Even when they are dead wrong they are the ( sometimes irritating) guides toward truth.<\/p>\n

On a personal level, I am a creator and a critic foremost, followed closely by spectator. I dip my toe in being a joiner and I am not a collector at all. I’m not sure why this is. I had a bloglines account and then a blogbridge aggregator and both fell into immediate disuse. I don’t subscribe to a single RSS feed and I’ve been told that mine malfunctions a lot. I don’t do digg or that delicious thing and I understand neither. Recently, eerie<\/a><\/strong>, the mistress of the group blog Aqoul<\/a><\/strong> indicated she kept track of about 240 blogs<\/a>(!). My hat is off to her, I can’t muster that kind of interest.<\/p>\n

How about you ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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