This is the “updating” of my old stuff from the 1993-1997 Online Community Thesis sort of thing I was working on will take up,  most likely with renewed vigor and thinking in light of this blogger/weblog phenomenon. 

I have started a group on Ecunet where I always throw my hat in the ring to see what it stirs up.  My “portal” thoughts kind of ran their bit there,  and its been a struggle to come up with new ways to put it,  but theis Blogging thing…..there’s something “portal-like” about it.  I just read last night in “We’ve Got Blog” how somebody calls webblogs “microportals”……..(update on 7-19….it’s Cameron Barrett of Camworld in an article entitled Anatomy of a Weblog)