Explicit Blog Networks
From the Blog Herald comes an updated List of Blog Networks. Is this another way to try and notice blog communities? How are networks or aggregations of blogs community-like? Are they? As I looked at some of these networks, it seemed to me that the community may in fact be the readers of these networks along with the networks themselves. Is the explicit aggregation of blogs an accelerator of blog communities?
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posted by Nancy White at 8:39 AM
2 Comments:
Thanks for pointing this out. Was interesting to look through some of the networks and see how the various parts of the network interact with each other and their readers.
Most of the networks mentioned fail to reach my definition of "community" by a good margin. They may house and connect communities composed of individual blogs and small groups of active readers, but they don't seem to be picking up any community-like attributes as a whole.
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