Of course, it was addressed "Dear Golf Club Express Member" or some such... and I don't do golf, and I've never told anything that I do. *sigh*
Carpe Diem: "Jeremy compares the Reality Check experiment with the EditThisPage.com community. That's interesting, but I'm not sure the comparison is valid." I agree... the comparision isn't valid, esp. in the technical sense of the term. Some of the ideas can be applied, though.
Let's try something else to seperate stories here...
EditThisPage.com: We ARE a Community: "Is Edit.This.Page.com a community? Or are we just a collection of individuals--men and women isolated on lonely islands (or weblogs)?" A good wrap up to today's "conversation".
I used to think weblogs were over-rated, even avoided the term, because I agree with those who say that this is not a fundamentally new type of web site, and they are nothing to get excited about. The community that may form from a large number of people using them, however, may just be something to get excited about.
Expect me to mumble some more about communities in the future. I like what I see here; a bunch of people, communicating, a system that encourages polite behavior (or you are ignored, even more so then on the Usenet). New dynamics at work! Not totally new, of course, but new nevertheless. I like this. I don't just want iRights to explore the wrong ways of doing business, like Boundary Breakers, I want to explore the right ways too, which is hard to do when you just read the news 
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This might explain the difficulty in getting a decent discussion going in these communities; those likely to post are likely to already have their own weblog, and do it there instead.
This implies that to be fair I need to create my own list of blogs-I-like. I'll get to that sometime, I guess.
I'll take a shot at that. Weblog community-links along which negative energy flows tend to break themselves. Rather then leaving two antagonists in a more conventional community, neither of whom will leave and neither of whom will back down, the link between the two will simply sever... possibly with a great deal of noise and smoke, but sever it will. *Shazam*, no more contact, yet the meta-community remains more-or-less intact, and is even better off for having less negative energy flowing through it. Weblog community-links along which positive energy flows will tend to reinforce themselves; we see this in the list of links to other weblogs which seem almost redundent because the 'blogger links to them so often anyhow. It's not redundency, it's a sign of the strength of the bond between the two community-units.
More Thoughts on ETP as Community: On Deciding... Better: "And there's respect and politeness here. I don't know how we get along without alcohol as social lubricant."