Online Communities

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On the one hand starting a community of some sort either here or on Pillowfort sounds like it could be fun and maybe a good experience for me.  On the other hand it sounds like responsibility so there's a very significant part of me that wants nothing to do with it lol.  Also seeing how dead a lot of communities are or become I think there are certain forces of Web 2.0 that make them difficult to maintain.  Perhaps even cultural forces that encourage very atomized behavior and alienation from others are involved with this phenomenon. Which is a shame, because I think there's a lot of interesting things that could be done with these online communities.