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Common Craft - Online Community Strategies.  Being really curious now, I go to the commoncraft (not CommonCraft nor Common Craft, though they are not sure about the second form, which is used most places other than the logo).

It appeals to me that the site is done in a friendly and chatty voice, and that it is (oh, there's one) about CommonCraft, which is a very nice advance over ToolCraft (which tends to be separative and not common).  I also learn from this site that there is a Social Software Alliance.

The most-important part may be the the little blurb about a conversation with Ward Cunningham that gets into the fragility and the remarkable survival of civilizations, a metaphor for how wikis thrive through civility despite the hostile and anti-social elements afforded by the Internet.
posted by Dennis at 5/4/2004 07:57:22 AM