Mark Pilgrim: Power laws and priorities. All the friendships I�ve developed in the past 2 years-starting long before I was in the Technorati Top 10-grew out of connections I made through writing this weblog and reading others. This month I’ll get 1 million hits on my weblog, and have lunch with 10 friends I met through my weblog. Guess which I care about more. Mark blogs about a blog entry about blogging about blogs. The irony of my linking back gets apparent when you read the article. The long and the short of it, though, is that Mark makes the argument to blog as a means of building relationships, rather than trying to win fame.

Jode and I have been talking a bit about this. That is, the Internet has provided a way to attain some aspect of community of some–perhaps significant–value. In what ways can we use technology to continue to build the relationships that are established in a church-like setting (such as IronWorks) over the course of the week? How about over the course of a lifetime?

Update: Jason Kottke (the design of whose résumé I seriously copped has an analysis of the power trend of blog link distribution.