I initially found this post searching for CoCollage-related material. First, a quick clarification: Strands Labs Seattle is part of Corvallis, OR-based Strands Labs, Inc., but I think of us as a “startup within a startup”. The paper Shelly Farnham presented at CHI was based, in part, on an earlier finding of general voids in social support as being an incentive for people to seek out a sense of community and develop “third place attachment” at / through coffeehouses. One such void – for some [most?] people – may well be getting laid, and while supporting that goal has not been our primary focus in CoCollage, it may be that we are missing an opportunity to better serve an underserved segment of the coffeehouse community. I / we will ponder that some more …

And, if / when you’re next pondering the issue of comments on blogs – and your comment about comments was part of what motivated me to post a comment – I don’t think that blog comments are broken, per se, but there is a much talked about power law distribution of participation in various social spheres. I have often pondered comments – and lack thereof – and what they really mean. I, too, have written about commenting on my blog, e.g., Commenting on Comments (http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/dont-take-anyth.html) and Commenting on Validation / Validating Comments (http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/commenting-on-v.html). Unfortunately, in the first post, I think I lost a commenter, blog reader and perhaps a friend.

More recently, a series of posts on Community by the Numbers at the Life with Alacrity blog (http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/) may [also] be of interest.

I initially found this post searching for CoCollage-related material. First, a quick clarification: Strands Labs Seattle is part of Corvallis, OR-based Strands Labs, Inc., but I think of us as a “startup within a startup”. The paper Shelly Farnham presented at CHI was based, in part, on an earlier finding of general voids in social support as being an incentive for people to seek out a sense of community and develop “third place attachment” at / through coffeehouses. One such void – for some [most?] people – may well be getting laid, and while supporting that goal has not been our primary focus in CoCollage, it may be that we are missing an opportunity to better serve an underserved segment of the coffeehouse community. I / we will ponder that some more …

And, if / when you’re next pondering the issue of comments on blogs – and your comment about comments was part of what motivated me to post a comment – I don’t think that blog comments are broken, per se, but there is a much talked about power law distribution of participation in various social spheres. I have often pondered comments – and lack thereof – and what they really mean. I, too, have written about commenting on my blog, e.g., Commenting on Comments (http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/dont-take-anyth.html) and Commenting on Validation / Validating Comments (http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/commenting-on-v.html). Unfortunately, in the first post, I think I lost a commenter, blog reader and perhaps a friend.

More recently, a series of posts on Community by the Numbers at the Life with Alacrity blog (http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/) may [also] be of interest.