It seems 1% of all people on the web contribute to it. Whoa! This 1% is not only prolific, they're also incredibly diverse. This goes back to my writing that the web is the great democritizer. Everybody gets to be an expert and Andy Warhol was correct, everybody gets 15 minutes of fame in the virtual world. But when you put those numbers together, they don't make sense. The internet using population worldwide is 1,086,250,903. One percent of that population is almost 11 million people. We're looking at the other 99% of web users spending just over 310 years each just to keep up.
The moral? Choose your visits wisely. It's not a matter of information overload, it's a matter of data mining at the personal relevance level -- There's a search engine tool I want to see.
The Boston KMers were correct; author effort plays a huge role in determining which information gets your attention. I've been going through lots of blogs in lots of fields in order to bring more value to this blog. What impresses me the most is how quickly I've learned to determine a blog's value for my immediate purposes and needs. I'll share my tricks once I get them finalized. I'm interested in knowing what tricks readers use, if any, to determine if a wiki, blog, web site, whatever, has value to them, both long term and immediately. Let me know your thoughts, and thanks.
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