Network Inequality

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Network Inequality
Anil Dash, Medium, 2016/01/21

Why isn't there more diversity in ranks of social media A-listers? It's because platform-builders are often advised to focus on theoir own niche first, and the A-listers "were simply talented people who were early to the platform, and often were chosen by the platform as 'featured users'" picked out of that handful of friends and family who joined the platform. More...