i really don't feel like a part of blogdom (the weblog community). online communities are complicated, and the ones i'm most familar with are bbs systems such as firstclass, telefinder, and hotline. these are dedicated community software enviroments each with their own client and server software.
web based communities seem a little less tangible than bbs's. maybe it's just me. quite a number of online forums have very strong communties, and a strong sense of self and purpose. wiki's are web based too, and they very strong communal sense. really i think the web has a much greater potential than anything for building online communities, it just hasn't been exploited well yet.
all that to the side, here are some of my favorite web based communites : http://www.overgrow.com , http://www.thecorral.net , http://www.rhizome.org (more coming)
Posted by rett at May 24, 2003 02:44 AM | TrackBack