{"id":15,"date":"2004-09-07T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T18:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=15"},"modified":"2004-09-07T18:01:53","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:01:53","slug":"docs-visit-to-my-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/docs-visit-to-my-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc&#8217;s visit to my class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nice thing about guest to a class like ours is that the guest can range around quite a bit and we&#8217;re small enough to absorb and even revel in that ranging. I sent Doc down memory lane by bringing up the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2002\/08\/08\">when he lived here in the early 70s that he was part of an intentional community, Oxbow<\/a>. Doc is still interested in community and not completely accidential ones that build around physical proximity. So off we go.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the talk for this afternoon, Doc was allowed to tell his story with digressions and questions along the way. We were helped out by questions from <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/wdg\/\">some of the folks who work with me at ibiblio.org<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/rantingprofs.typepad.com\/\">Cori Dauber<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/roml\/faculty\/index.htm\">Richard Vernon<\/a>. (Richard was once Doc&#8217;s editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxjournal.com\/\">Linux Journal<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I am still not sure if blogging and bloggers even when aggregated by <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a> constitute something called a &#8220;community.&#8221; I am becoming more convinced than before that blogging can become a part of &#8216;everyday life&#8217; (thanks Barry Wellman) and can facilitate the creation, growth, and maintenance of communities. Perhaps blogs are one of the better examples of the &#8216;strength of weak ties.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nice thing about guest to a class like ours is that the guest can range around quite a bit and we&#8217;re small enough to absorb and even revel in that ranging. I sent Doc down memory lane by bringing up the fact that when he lived here in the early 70s that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}