Comments on: Online communities are all about people (it’s our blogiversary)

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:49:49 +0000

Interesting thinking about the different ways in which the sources use the word ‘people’. Obama uses it to communicate a mass opinion on behalf of the nation – e.g. ‘we the people’, ‘the American people’.

Blogs often use it to generalise ‘people like to talk’, ‘people think that…’, ‘people seem to be saying’.

At least we’re moving away from using the term ‘consumers’ to describe groups of people though. Perhaps in ten years we’ll look back and laugh at how we defined ourselves in that way.

By: Clerkendweller

Clerkendweller — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:31:44 +0000

Thanks for adding the link!

By: Clerkendweller

Clerkendweller — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:49:02 +0000

Happy blogiversary, but I think you’ve missed something by accident in your excitement. It may well be “about the people and the way we work together in a social environment”, but we do have to live with legislation and things like copyright law. If I’m not mistaken, you might be missing a link to where you generated the word cloud!

It looks like Wordle and includes “wordle” in the image filename – so if it came from Wordle, it needs to be attributed http://www.wordle.net/faq#use

Cheers