Context and the lifetime of social networks.

Temporarily parking this here. My initial thoughts were, "Do the weblogs become the context? and when the weblogs are gone, isn't the context gone too?" Also, "Isn't group identity always longer-lived than the event that gave birth to it? - how else do you explain 40th high-school reunions?" -- BB

Helping ties outlive projects. Tom Smith on how identity can be longer-lived than the course that gives birth to it: "Using a "standard" tool like IM, means that as the students left the course and went to work all over the world, the network (or "crews" as they were known) continued to be maintained. Out there in new media world, in London, New York, San Francisco there is a "secret" network still talking."

Something to think about, for instance, when you set up weblogs for a group of people in a certain context. How long will that context last? Are you sure you want to tie the blogs to that context?
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