Why I'm Building Community Out of Internet Strangers

Building Community Out of Strangers

Tracy Durnell explains why she expanded her blogroll to include personal blogs of people she doesn't know, shifting her attention from news to people. She argues that personal blogs offer a human-scale, authentic alternative to social media, and that linking generously is the blogger's way of building community. She sees today's independent web as lively, with blogging as a social, connective practice that creates spaces and norms.