So I was reading a post at Meg’s site called You – yes you – at the back: you may not talk in class. Best post title ever. Anyway… That’s not the point. I had a comment to make about it, so I went and started to write it, and then next thing you know it’s about a year and a half long and still incomplete. So like a fairly large seedling, I decided to transplant it to my site, intially for the normal part of the site, but then – you know what – it got even larger, so now it’s stuffed like an embarrassing piece of furniture in the attic of my site:
Who’s afraid of community participation?
The most interesting aspect about discussing “UK weblogging culture” is how uncomfortable people seem to be with the concept of being part of a “community” at all. Perhaps more fascinating still are the assumptions of what participating in a community involves…