Matt -

As you know, I think you are defining, and working on, a critical issue as, paraphrasing Martin Langeveld, attention and trust become the new scarcities.

As Jane Stevens is working on web shells and other tools for community bloggers, your work on local wikis has to be integrated, or we will end up enhancing the potential for a "nauseating cacophony" that will end up driving people away, rather than engaging them in community issues.

The community bloggers have to be very active nurturers as they work within their web shells.

Thanks for working on this!

Chuck

As we create C3, the Complete Community Connection, this is exactly our approach. How can we create economically supportable tasks, which have to be approached with a completely different mindset - atomized, networked, content in the first instance?

I will let you know how we progress!

Chuck

The Newsmixer project described by Rich Gordon at http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2009/01/news-mixer-gen...would seem to offer help on several of these comment issues by not only avoiding anonymity, but also incorporating the community aspects of Facebook.