community
That Stack Overflow thing we launched a year ago? It's been going pretty well so far. Of course, everyone knows you could code Stack Overflow in a long weekend. It's trivial. Assembling a worldwide community of smart, engaged software developers? That's a whole different
community
I'm in no way trying to conflate this with the meaning of my last blog post, but after a six month gestation, we just gave birth to a public website. Of course, I'm making a sly little joke here about community, but I really believe in
.net
Way back in June of last year, I promised to donate a portion of my advertising revenue back to the community: I will be donating a significant percentage of my ad revenue back to the programming community. The programming community is the reason I started this blog in the first
community
Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about the failure of Kuro5hin [http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=61cdd546-7306-4aac-a64c-5288011ff613] , which was originally designed to address perceived problems with the slashdot [http://www.slashdot.org/] model: > [Kuro5hin allowed] all users to create stories, vote on the stories and to rate comments.