During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.
Today’s TDC says:
The Virtual Community Center is a database of, well, virtual communities. Take a look and see who you find there. Tell us about them, or another community that is not there, but you think should be. Find out more about the initiative from Howard Rheingold if you are interested.
I hopped over to Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner to find out about The Hardest Working Man in Hip Hop. Sadly the links to his speeches and interviews are lost to the world, but it looks as if he was (is?) a busy man – or at least he was in 2009.
Oh, he’s still active on Facebook!
I also hiphopped over to the History of Hip Hop page and bookmarked that to read when I’m not meant to be working.
All in all, a nice site and a great way to spend some time
I choose three places that no longer exist. But then I clicked one by Howard Rheingold, one of the creators of Virtual Community Center, and followed a link to a reflective post on “communities” vs “social media.” A good read: https://www.patreon.com/howardrheingold/posts/virtual-social-161568647
Oh, that’s great – thank you for sharing:
“Social media have been destructive to the growth of other, thoughtful forms of online communication because participants in social media don’t control what they are invited to respond to. That’s done by algorithms that maximize engagement, which often translates to conflict. The algorithm is what diminished virtual communities. But communities still do exist, and anyone can start one today with Discourse, WordPress, Google Groups, Slack, Discord. I wrote here six years ago about preserving online greenspace in the face of social media juggernauts. Help keep virtual communities alive: start your own.”