Red Queen

Red Queen in Wonderland

Yesterday I have been thinking about the Dagan rule: 33% are doing all the work, 33% do something and 33% do next to nothing.  Last time I said that this was a reflection of the world.  But there may be another explanation. 

If you look at the people subscribed to my blog and our Pajamanation group at Facebook, the Dagan rule holds: 33%, those that doing all the work.  But I cannot believe that 66% are unconcerned about our efforts. 

Suppose (like Chomsky's formal grammars) there are four types of people nowadays: Type-0, Type-1, Type-2, Type-3 and these types reveal the way that technology is digested buy them.  I mean, our world is not any longer a reflection of the world five years ago, it is a world filled to the brim with technology.

• Type-0 people are like Chris, our CTO, they span the complete horizon, there is very little gaps in their knowledge, they have been TO almost from birth.  
• Type-1 people are like the 33% who are reading my blog.  They are extremely updated on all the new technologies and apps that come out every day.  They probably spend 60% of their day learning just to keep up.  
• Type-2 people are like the 33% who do something but not enough.  Perhaps they are like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, they are running very fast to stay in the same place.  Perhaps they want to read my blog but do not know where it is, they want to read it daily but do not know what an RSS reader is or how to configure one, they want to join the party on Facebook but they do not find 'groups' and if they do, they do not find 'join'.  
• Type-3 people, probably have intermittent access to the internet and are just e-mailers and all the rest escapes them.  

This may be an alternative reason why we only have 33% who are up to speed.

For type-2 and type-3 I would suggest that they buy a Macbook and get an DSL connection and then configure their i-google page.  They outsource their mail address to Google, join Facebook, put their itunes music on igoogle, their youtubes videos, the alert page when their name is mentioned, the weather forecast, babelfish and of course, the most important Google reader, so that they can daily read all the articles they want from all the magazines they want (and my blog!).  If they are temporarily out of signal, they can use Google Gears to read them offline.

In short: it is to us Type-1's, to educate Type-2's and to Type-2's to educate Type-3's.  But first we have to know, if this premise is true.

Tomorrow is a special day: I will tell you about the date when we become Overlords, a frequently delayed operatation to gain a foothold on in cyberspace.  When D-Day?

Walter