http://depth-first.com/articles/tag/participation en-us 40 Walking the Web of Chemical Informatics <p><a href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.aspx?ar=2041&amp;l2=17&amp;l3=104&amp;srid=17"><img src="http://depth-first.com/demo/20070905/graph.png"></img></a></p> <p>Web 2.0 may be <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html">all about participation</a>, but the <a href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.aspx?ar=2041&amp;l2=17&amp;l3=104&amp;srid=17">numbers</a> reported by <a href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com">The McKinsey Quarterly</a> suggest a self-selecting oligarchy rather than a democracy. Success may well depend more on engaging the top 2-10% of users rather than appealing to all of them. Food for though when forming your next community, be it electronic or otherwise.</p> <p><em>image credit: <a href="http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com">The McKinsey Quarterly</a></em></p> Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:28:00 +0000 urn:uuid:1ba4dc54-4c50-4dbc-bf39-c25abe642998 Rich Apodaca http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/09/05/name-that-graph-revealed-oligarchy-2-0 Web web20 participation oligarchy socialnetworking