Posts filed under 'Online Communities'
Recently there’s an emerging rule of thumb on the Internet.
It suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
This rule applies to many popualr user-driven sites like YouTube and Wikipedia.
So what does it mean? Nine out of ten people would pass by a site that demands too much interaction and content generation from users.
I belong to that 89% of people. Not that I dun want to contribute back to the communities, but I simply dun have the knowledge and resources.
This reminds me of Open Source Software. I really appreciate those people who work so hard for the benefits of others. Next time when you’re using a freeware, think about the people behind and the effort they put in unconditionally.
Remark:
About a month ago, GNOME was looking for female developers for a Summer Outreach Program. I was really excited about it at first, but I finally didn’t submit an application. Although it says you dun have to be the greatest coder to take part in it, I still feel that I’m not capable of handling it.
Source: The Guardian
July 21st, 2006
What do you want to do? What do you want?
Stop procastinating? Wake up when your alarm clock goes off? Stop biting your fingernails?
Quiz Smoking? Eat healthier? Exercise regurlarly? Lose 10 pounds? Become a morning person?
Spend less money? Buy a house? Buy a car? Buy a boat? Open a bar?
Get over someone? Fall in love?
Get a tattoo? Watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies?
Be more self-disciplined? Be organized?
Learn AJAX style programming? Contribute to an Open Source software project? Learn a foreign language?
Kiss in the rain? See the northern light? Swim with dolphins?
Or simply worry less and be happy?
Sure everyone has something that he/she wants to do. Wanna know what other people want to do? Find out on 43 things who have the same goals as yours, get inspired, make it happen and share your progress.
Here are something fun I found on 43 things:
1) 2 people want to have a hot dog cart and sell hot dogs.
2) 803 want to get a gmail account. That’s surprising! I’ve a lot of Gmail invitations to give out but apparently none of my friends wants it because everyone already had one. Anyway, I dun think these people need my help because I saw a few people posted there saying that they would hook up these people.
3) 613 want to witness the end of IE. Well, sure I love Firefox; but I dun think that IE would die so easily. IE7 is coming. Maybe there would be a few surprises? Who knows?
February 13th, 2006
I tried very hard to reproduce what I wrote in the updated version of “Something’s wrong with me”, but I couldn’t. I can’t reproduce the mood and feelings that I had at that particular time and day. Emotion is just……..complicated.
I barely remember that I wrote like a whole line of FUCK, and I said…….I should have kicked that son of a bitch in the balls and slapped him in his face…….but I ain’t really able to say it again…… I guess……my anger has gone away. Yeah….I ain’t that upset anymore, BUT……I do have a problem with this MSN space now……cuz IT TOOK AWAY MY FEELINGS, man! Damn it!
I trust it for keeping my everyday feelings, but it betrayed me! It’s so discouraging! Maybe I should just……stop writing.
August 16th, 2005
I updated my “Something’s wrong with me” entry yesterday, but I just found that it was still showing the old out-dated version. What the heck? Is it that I swear so much in the updated version that they changed it back to the old one? Oh Shoot… How can I remember what I wrote? I want it back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 15th, 2005