Dave Cohn, the force of energy behind Spot.us is host­ing this month’s Car­ni­val of Journ­al­ism. He’s after pre­dic­tions for 2009.

Well, I don’t really have a pre­dic­tion of the “Someone will dis­cover a busi­ness model for Twit­ter” vari­ety. It being the sea­son of reflec­tion and all, it’s more an observation.

It seems to me that we have talked for years now of tech­no­logy and com­munit­ies without ever stop­ping to ask what — if any­thing — might bind them together. The assump­tion is that it is con­ver­sa­tion, that the con­nec­tion simply enables and — lo and behold! — the com­munity pops into exist­ence. Well, con­ver­sa­tion is not enough. You have to do something.

If you don’t believe me, ask Ant­oine de Saint-Exupéry. Con­tinue read­ing →