Column from PC Magazine: The Mystery of the Online Community

John Dvorak, an opinionated but usually interesting columnist, takes a look at online communities. Given the recent discussions around Communities of Practice, this is quite germaine. Now, those who work with CoP's would rightly point out that there should properly be some face to face component for it to work well and that these are really Networks of Practice. This is touched upon obliquely in this article, and the point is not an insignificant one. It will be interesting to see what the effect of such social networks is on how we interact over the net.