Pareto Rule of Participation

While researching and fact finding for my upcoming book (titled Quantifying Openness) I came across a startling number of phenomena that were Pareto or Power law distributed (or Zipfian in discrete cases) throughout the Internet and social media circles. We often see averages or peaks cited as usage statistics or membership statistics for social networks. Rarely do organizations quantify their publicly available statistics in meaningful ways. Since joining the GKEN community, I thought it would be interesting to study the participation of individuals in the GKEN community.You can find the whole article here on the GKEN site: http://www.globalknowledgeexchange.net/pareto-rule-participation