{"id":482,"date":"2006-08-02T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=482"},"modified":"2006-08-02T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T18:46:34","slug":"few_to_many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Few to many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard MacManus has published some <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/web2explorer\/?p=250\">striking statistics<\/a> about Digg, supplied to him by the site Diggtrends. The data reveal that of Digg&#8217;s 445,000 registered users, only 2,287 contributed any stories to the site during the last six weeks. But here are the real eye-openers: The top 100 users contributed fully 55% of the stories that appeared on the site&#8217;s front page, and the top 10 users &#8211; yep, you can count &#8217;em on your own two hands &#8211; contributed a whopping 30% of the front page stories. Peer production? I think a better term for it would be peerage production.<\/p>\n<p>Diggtrends also reports, according to MacManus, that there was a sudden and dramatic increase in user submissions after Jason Calacanis made his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/benkler_on_cala.php\">offer<\/a> to pay top social bookmarkers. Digg users, says Diggtrends, &#8220;have realized the value of being a top user and probably are aiming for Netscape money.&#8221; No doubt there are such things as reputational capital and attention capital, and people will compete for them. But they&#8217;ll compete harder for cash. With cash, after all, you can actually buy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Diggtrends (or is it Duggtrends?) has posted its <a href=\"http:\/\/diggtrends.com\/stats.aspx?entry=27\">analysis<\/a>. Meanwhile, Calacanis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calacanis.com\/2006\/08\/02\/the-truth-shall-make-you-free\/\">gloats<\/a>, announcing he&#8217;s succeeded in luring away two of the top 10 Diggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard MacManus has published some striking statistics about Digg, supplied to him by the site Diggtrends. The data reveal that of Digg&#8217;s 445,000 registered users, only 2,287 contributed any stories to the site during the last six weeks. But here are the real eye-openers: The top 100 users contributed fully 55% of the stories that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}