I’ve been thinking about David Wiley’s post all day now, as I ended up laying in bed last evening contemplating the differences I am experience as a blogger compared to being a member of a discussion forum, mailing list, usenet group or any of the various collaborative communications forums I’ve participated in over the years. <\/p>\n
In some sense the answer to David’s questions seem straightforward<\/p>\n
– yes, the reason the people he mentions on the list are not the same ones in this ‘conversation’ or community is probably largely because they don’t blog<\/p>\n
– no, it’s not surprising, at least not to me, that there are so many groups in such a ‘small’ space because a) I don’t think it’s that small a space, b) they all seem to be coming together anyways (I would guess only 2-3 degrees of separation ‘in real life’ and even less online for everyone he lists and everyone on the edubloggers list<\/a> George published today)<\/p>\n On the other hand, as I think the responses on David’s site by George and Brian are getting at, there are a lot of real subtle differences that a many people have been trying to get at for the past year or two ( <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been thinking about David Wiley’s post all day now, as I ended up laying in bed last evening contemplating the differences I am experience as a blogger compared to being a member of a discussion forum, mailing list, usenet group or any of the various collaborative communications forums I’ve participated in over the years. In some sense … Continue reading “Will the “real” community please stand up?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}