I’m a huge fan of community. I think it’s what life is about, and I love that many technologies and software products are communities. I never got into Rails, mostly because I don’t even consider myself a developer, but Zed Shaw’s Rails is a Ghetto rant is awesome. I love this:

I swear if someone says they’re starting a social network I’m gonna beat them with the heel of my shoe.

I feel the same way. How do I know so many people that are creating the next myspace/facebook/google right now? Anyways

If they have a blog, speak at conferences, publish papers, 
or write books then they are public figures just like me.

This means that thanks to Larry Flynt I can stab them in the ear verbally, insult them, question their sexual orientation, and say anything that’s true and they just have to take it. Their only recourse is to write their pathetic little rebuttals in their stupid little blogs.

This ties in interestingly to recent posts about being public online and other shiz about internet communities.