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

[Garth Graham]

On 23-Jul-06, at 4:47 PM, Ralf Bendrath wrote:

> Just out of curiosity: What's the ratio on this list?
>
>> 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.

My filtered email folder for incom from March 22/04 to date (28  
months) has approx. 1302 messages on file (That's "approx" because If  
I forwarded something to someone and they replied to me personally  
without altering the subject heading it would still filter to my  
folder.  I didn't check throughly for those).

39% of the subscribers (148 of a total of 383) posted at least once.

Only three people, Zehle, Gurstein and Lovink, (0.8% of subscribers)  
accounted for 49% of postings (639 postings out of 1302).

Garth Graham