Creating your neighboursphere – Hubs & Hubris

In General on 24/5/2005 at 4:31 pm

I’ve posted over at Blogsavvy about creating the foundations for a local community using weblogs and aggregation.

What I’m arguing is that hubs (like Urban Vancouver) don’t work so well and that hubris (individuals aggregated) is a much better model, just that I’ll have to go and create that to prove my point :o) Whaddya reckon?

Update: Well, that’s one of lifes ambitions realised… I think I’ve just coined ‘neighboursphere’ (or ‘neighborsphere’, depending where you come from :o)

  1. Err….you do know that all the local blogs are aggregated, right?

    http://www.urbanvancouver.com/news/topics

    http://www.urbanvancouver.com/news/topics/vancouver-blogs

    Boris Mann 25 May 2005 at 12am

  2. Yes, very much so, but just aggregating blogs in your areas is little more than a webring-esque activity… am having similar discussion over at blogsavvy now if you’d like to roll there.

    James Farmer 25 May 2005 at 10am