http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/04/23/remembering-the-1-9-90-rule/ ...watching the intersection of the Web and media Wed, 16 May 2012 23:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/04/23/remembering-the-1-9-90-rule/#comment-2533 Seth Finkelstein Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:56:45 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/04/23/remembering-the-1-9-90-rule/#comment-2533 And I replied there: You’re just replacing one set of gatekeepers with another. This is so obvious by now that it shouldn’t even be a question. The reason otherwise is that there’s a whole system of deluding and conning The Audience into thinking they could be the ones in charge, if they just buy whatever snake-oil the “Web 2.0″ salesman is selling. It’s really very cruel at heart, even if some of the nicer fellow-travelers get drunk on the Kool-Aid themselves at times. And I replied there: You’re just replacing one set of gatekeepers with another. This is so obvious by now that it shouldn’t even be a question. The reason otherwise is that there’s a whole system of deluding and conning The Audience into thinking they could be the ones in charge, if they just buy whatever snake-oil the “Web 2.0″ salesman is selling. It’s really very cruel at heart, even if some of the nicer fellow-travelers get drunk on the Kool-Aid themselves at times.

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