In response to the announcement of the Computers and Composition Blog, Collin vs. Blog questions,

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, honestly, but perhaps it's that I feel a little ambivalent. The first post on the new blog was about online community, and I suppose the thinking at play here is that this will be a new site for the kind of community-building that our field is fond of. Steve and I bounced email back and forth last weekend about the relationship between weblogs and community (blogs as opposed to listservs), and I'm still thinking through whether weblogs (even collaborative ones) do much to promote community. I do think that there is a certain kind of community involved in collablogging, but I wonder if the more successful ones ultimately end up reflecting community more than they produce it. Hmm. Don't know.

I read this last week but waited to post it because I've been trying to wrap my mind around the difference between reflecting and producting community. I suspect, though, that with the particular range of posts here and the conversations we've had on Kairosnews, we aren't exactly reflecting any specific community that I know of. But then again, when does a listserv merely reflect community (the CFP listserv, for example) versus producing one?