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Your editor has been a
musician for many decades. He started the first band his Quaker
school ever had and played drums with bands up until 1980 when
he switched to stride piano. He had his own band until the mid-1990s
and has played with the New Sunshine Jazz Band, Hill City Jazz
Band, Not So Modern Jazz Band and the Phoenix Jazz Band.
APEX BLUES Sam
playing with the Phoenix Jazz Band at the Central Ohio Jazz festival
in 1990. Joining the band is George James on sax. James, then
84, had been a member of the Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller
orchestras and hadappeared on some 60 records.More
notes on James
Reuters - A tiny fraction of those who use the fast-growing social network phenomenon Twitter generate nearly all the content, a Harvard study shows. That makes it hard for companies to use the micro-blogging site as an accurate gauge of public opinion, the HarvardBusinessSchool study showed. . . The Harvard study examined public entries of a randomly selected group of 300,000 Twitter users. The researchers studied in May the content created in the lifetime of the users' Twitter accounts. It found that 10 percent of Twitter users generated more than 90 percent of the content, said Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, who led the research. More than half of all Twitter users post messages on the site less than once every 74 days.The median number of lifetime "tweets" per user is just one, according the research.
You find this ratio all the time in business. Either the 80/20 or the 90/10. Any sales book will tell you this. It's the same on flickr and I'll bet it's the same on facebook and myspace.
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You find this ratio all the time in business. Either the 80/20 or the 90/10. Any sales book will tell you this. It's the same on flickr and I'll bet it's the same on facebook and myspace.
Yep, and not only in business - everwhere. It's a bog-standard ratio, related to the standard distribution of most traits.
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