This short little post hits me in my "aha!" nerve. I think that culture is something that has evolved in the right way around here. I know what he means about the "paint" of artificial culture created in many start-up type sites.
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I'm actually trying to make my computer website more community based, with many ideas, how do I say it delicately, robbed from videosift. I'm writing a relatively large assignment on Web 2.0 and user-content sites and I'm developing my own website in the process, which is loads of fun (and hard work).
A good art house movie theater with a bunch of regulars could have a culture IMHO - it's just a smaller version of a village.
I don't think there is really a culture within the Sift. Culture implies a higher social interaction then currently exists, we have about as much culture as a art house movie theater with a bunch of regulars.
I disagree, human interaction is what sparks culture, and to say there is no human interaction on the Sift is refuted by the thousands of comments and conversations that have and will continue to take place. Even art house theaters have cultures that can be built around them. The internet simply connects more people then meat-space will.