I suggest that 2008 was the year that big became uncool. Big loans, big debts, big car companies, big wars and big promises. All blew up big and showed us that we need to change our way of thinking. No more spending more than our means and living the big American dream. Maybe the problem was scaleFirstly, an apology for being one of those blogs that rarely gets updated. It's been a long time coming to write a blog entry. My excuse:
I have already written about what web 2.0 means to me, this time let me unpack what community is not. Because sometimes by figuring out what something is not, we get to the core of what it is.
Anecdote: Picture this: A sweaty male locker-room at a local community gym in Vancouver (Ok, maybe stop picturing it!). A young European guy is talking to his gym buddy about his plans to go travel BC after he is done school this summer.