"The 1% are not getting paid for exactly the same things as the 99%"

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Originally uploaded by Tim Wragg.

I'm with Jaycee that it makes proactive sense for a hunter in the social media news space to have a migration strategy for its premium 1% of content creators : who aggregate, annotate and filter the most relevant and recent content for its audience. (vs the 19% that comment/vote and the remainder who lurk/read/consume)

It's been Amex priceless (or was that BusinessWeek coveresque backlash) marketing to boot. The best byproduct of the strategy has been to watch the market leader's 1% eat itself. (and I'm sure its cheaper, more effective labour than that sourced from a job board and the HR d'pt)

Calacanis.com : "The 1% are not getting paid for exactly the same things as the 99% - which was Yochi Benkler's big complaint about our Navigator program (he said it made the other 99% of folks into suckers). It turns out that the public understands that the Navigators have more to do than an average user (i.e. killing spam, getting rid of duplicate stories, helping users), and that they are obligated to show up for "work" every day. That last part sets the difference--the 1% we pay are obligated and the 99% are not obligated."