Northern Voice - Stephen Downes - Community

Community characteristics:

Web of relationships
Common interest
The network - people are connected
Semantics - Meaning - a topic, a value, an interest, a set of beliefs

Community of Semantic Relations = semantically based connections

Pick the most salient connection.

How do we filter?

Third party metadata - created by readers of blog posts.

The Community is the Network

No centralized place
People, resources
Meaning emerges from the community, rather than defining the community.