Weblog networking: degrees of strength

Brainstorming degrees of (weblog?) networking:

• no – you don’t exist in my world
• awareness (~familiar stranger?) – I know that you exist (weblog: finding someone who links to my weblog)
• interest – I start learning about you (weblog: RSS subsription?)
• occasional conversations – we start talking (weblog: commenting)
• regular conversations – we start relying on each other in thinking together (weblog: regular commenting, blogrolling)
• occasional actions – sometimes we do things together
• regular actions – we often do things together and rely on each other

Moving from regular conversations to occasional or regular actions is a core question of the whole actionable sense conversation (1, 2, 3), which has resulted in establishing Actionable sense Socialtext space (which deserves another post, but probably not today :). I still suspect that weblogs are not good for it.

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