Welcome back to Command D.  Thanks for all the comments.  Please keep ‘em coming if you like this stuff.  Otherwise our intern Nate Green takes over my spot and I have to start writing real articles again.

I’m sure what I’m about to say is no news flash to most of you who’ve found your way here to Stevesword, but I’m gonna say it anyway. It warms my heart to know that while our physical world becomes smaller, flatter and more homogenized, the inter-webs provide us a diversity of voices and interests in a way that continues to astound me in how truly different they are.  We may not all agree and that’s okay, ’cause there’s plenty of space for all of us.  It allows everyone and anyone who shares an interest to find their way to forming a real community.  On that note, lets take a brief sample of some of the vastly different communites out there.

***Please note that some of the following links may be considered by some to be controversial.  They are denoted by asterisks(*).  Be a grown up and make them your co-worker’s home page.***

1.   First of all you have your bloggers, which range from the amatuer to the professional.  Seriously though, I think you could break down the blogs into too many categories so I’ll only list a few:

A.   My favorite blogs out there are political blogs.  You might have heard of those, but you can also* get some real outliers.

B.   Then you have personal blogs which range in subject* matter… Yes it’s that clear-cut to me.  Two categories and only two categories.  What can I say, I’m a political junkie.

2.   There R cheezburgers which R closely related to srj.

3.   I don’t know what you would categorize this as, but it fits in here… somehow.

4.   Of course the social networking sites have their communities.  You gotta love it …

5.   I want to keep an open mind*, but sometimes it’s just that things can go too far.  Which is to say, if you are a normal person, this might be too much*.

6.   I can’t go out like that!  Here !  Here !  HERE!

7.   Last but not least, there are those places where a person seems to be their very own community.

See you next week…

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