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What is the story of Advogato?

There’s a Google Tech Talk about Advogato: http://video.google.com/videopla...

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Is the 90-9-1 rule of user participation a myth?

Anecdotal evidence from crowdsourcing style projects I’ve worked on tend to support the basic principle (if not the exact ratios). The vast majority of the work on projects I have been involved with ends up being performed by a tiny subset of highly active users.

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I was thinking the other day how long it had been since I used the acronym “IRL” or the expanded phrase “In Real Life.” It used to be the thing we’d say when we meant “not on the internet”, and I’m glad that it has become gradually obsolete over the years, now that the internet is accepted as part of life.

Meg Pickard # 26th October 2009, 9:59 pm

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