I certainly don’t mean this to be as snarky as it’s about to come out, but I love the fact that Isaak questions my claim that linkability is essential to online discussions (and thus, communities) with a link:
I really don’t know how linkability will build communities. But we really need to work on building support platforms for the public to interact with the library and promote social discussions, whether offline or online. Currently, the only way for such interactions is through the [High Browse Online blog][3], but even then, there are not much discussion going on. Maybe librarians need to go in more often to post useful comments. And we might need to read [this][4] to find out how to solicit more comments on the blog. [link to High Browse blog added — Casey]
The big challenge here is to realize that the entire web is an online community, unbounded by geography or even the narrow confines of a single website. And I’m not sure I could point to a better example of that than Isaak’s post. Rather than comment at my blog, he instead posted on his — with a link back to mine.
But hey, you’ve gotta love that they’re hosting rock shows in the library.