boards.ie developer Ross Duggan pointed me to two interesting pages today, the first from 2006:

Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute by Jakob Nielsen

where I liked the quote:

How to Overcome Participation Inequality

You can’t.

and one from this month:

The 3 Loops of Designing for Audience by Gregor Hochmuth

Feedback loops contribute greatly to a user’s sense of Audience within a service.