Full Circle Associates

First, thanks to everyone who has offered resources for my work in blog based communities. What an embarassment of riches. Now not only is there a great del.icio.tag for blog_communities, but also on CiteU. I wish I could study it all. As I open this can of worms, I'm reminded that blogs and communities converge to a very interesting topic. Wow. Thank you all AGAIN!

What I realize as I continue to write about the three main forms I'm seeing is that the really interesting stuff is in the hybrids, but that is going to have to wait for the next writing opportunity.

Today I'm trying to organize my thoughts around the tech, social and content architectures of blog communities. I've rendered the ideas into a few charts, but every time I look at them, I am not satisfied. So again, feedback time? The text that goes with these pics - the so called analysis - isn't done yet. :-)

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