The upsurge of the careless use of this word has me spinning.
Community – Same as innovation. It’s something you see after, rather than can craft before. A bunch of people do not make a community. Example: Myspace is not a community any more than New York City is. Myspace is a huge collection of very small and intimate communties, much like New York is about communities based on neighbourhoods, shool groups, co-workers, extended families, etc. Communities form on their own and cannot be created like Athena out of our brain. Maybe it’s the attempt to create communities by fiat that annoys me.
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