Blogging as lurking

Stephen Downes in 2004: The Turning Point

Blogging Without Writing

One tenth of one percent of the people write publicly. Well, OK, I can’t validate this figure, but it has been a rule of thumb for me for about a decade. If you have a thousand readers on your Website, one person will post regularly to the discussion board. If you have a thousand mailing list subscribers, one person will post the bulk of the messages. If you have a thousand Internet users, one person will create (and maintain) a blog (people may observe that two percent of Internet users currently blog, but I see this as an indication of the scale of the coming shrinkage of the blog community).

Jonathan Smith: With this medium I am reading much more than I am posting.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/01/31.html#a1062; comments are here.

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