<incom> FW: [bytesforall_readers] What is the 1% rule?

[Alexis Turner]

Just out of curiosity:
What percentage of things that *you* see, use, or experience on a daily basis do 
you also personally bother to  build or take an active part in?  Cobble you 
own shoes? Do you pave your own roads?  Grow all of your own food?  Design or 
construct the buildings you live in?  Make tootbrushes as a hobby?  Perhaps you 
built the computer, and all the parts therein, that you are using to read this 
right now.
-Alexis


On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Ralf Bendrath wrote:

::Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:47:22 +0200
::From: Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
::To: incommunicado <incom-l at incommunicado.info>
::Subject: Re: <incom> FW: [bytesforall_readers] What is the 1% rule?
::
::Gurstein, Michael wrote:
::> This seems fairly consistent with my experience.
::I guess it not only applies to online content, but to all kinds of voluntary
::work. It is pretty consistent with my experiences in a number of NGOs, from
::the peace movement to privacy advocacy, and of course the WSIS Civil Society
::crowd.
::
::Just out of curiosity: What's the ratio on this list?
::
::Best, Ralf
::
::> 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.