Ewan McIntosh is surprised to find that participation in YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia is relatively low compared to the overall visitorship of the respective sites.
I’ve given a few reasons why this may be so. While I wasn’t too surprised, I expected the percentages to be slightly higher. Then again, it’s quite telling that Yahoo! Photos has (soon to be had) more users than Flickr.
Are we, Web 2.0 advocates, making a mountain out of the participative molehill?
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It made sense to me too. There are usually more lurkers than contributors in forums as well.
I am afraid that’s the truth at least for now. My fear is always that marketing and PR folks (like me!) overrun the entire Web 2.0 world and start giving all kinds of promises like its the holy grail of marketing or that it is a magic pill that can cure all the world’s woes. And after that, it becomes yet another dot bomb!
Let’s just enjoy it for what’s it worth I say. Carpe Diem!
That’s a whole bunch of the population to recruit!
Break them in gently - if you don’t want to produce content, comment at least!
“If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
John Keating (Robin Williams) in Dead Poet’s Society.
Sorry, you mentioned Carpe Diem and it brought those lines to mind. =)
@ otterman
Yup, that’s a good stepping stone.