Blog communities are certainly comprised of dynamic blogger and reader populations. In Cinpinski’s case, she has been able to experience blogging communities as a member of the periphery (through her personal blog), as well as a member of the “highly interactive” (through PITC). However, at both levels of participation, she was part of the dynamic communities that are increasingly networking themselves across the Web. Enhanced by the digital medium of the blog, being part of a community in this sense no longer requires residing in a certain area. A community member can interact everyday or stop by once a year, and can choose to be part of one community, or many. As blogging popularity grows, it will be interesting to watch how the peripheral members further interact with the more “populated” and interactive nodes of the blogosphere. If higher and more intense levels of interaction are encouraged throughout the blogosphere, perhaps the notions of community will expand even further.
Transcript of Cinpinski Interview
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