[Sussex] Jakob Nielsen on Participation Inequality on the Web

[Phil Slade]

I'm afraid I didn't write this Nik, lots of things I post to various
lists are just

  REDISTRIBUTION  REDISTRIBUTION  REDISTRIBUTION  REDISTRIBUTION

Which I think is one of the strong points of the Net, as long as the
original authors get the credit

regards Phil.

On 06/04/07, Nicholas Butler <nik at reducedhackers.com> wrote:
> Phil.,
>
> Wow you sit there for ages saying hardly anything online and then BHWAM
> that posting, as a response to lurkers, users and members ( see Dobbos
> previous postings ) its a damn fine read . its a bit long but since its
> here and in plain text I'll read it than head off to my browser ( but
> hey horses for courses man, hourses for corses ! ) .
>
> In particular I enjoyed this comment in the summary
>
> "  * Make participation a side effect. Even better,
> let users participate with zero effort by making their
> contributions a side effect of something else they're
> doing. For example, Amazon's "people who bought this
> book, bought these other books" recommendations are a
> side effect of people buying books."
>
> and this one in the main posting
>
> " * Signal-to-noise ratio. Discussion groups drown
> in flames and low-quality postings, making it hard to
> identify the gems. Many users stop reading comments
> because they don't have time to wade through the swamp
> of postings from people with little to say."
>
> Thanks for posting
>
> Nik
>
>
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