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"And Meg Pickard [resurrected] that out-of-fashion word, community:

[GBlogs] was a way of making it simpler to contact and identify each other. The community - all the conversations, the portals and the gizmos grew organically from the community - not the other way around.

In 2000, the mailing list started because a blogger from the Netherlands was coming over during the summer . . . Rather than firing mails all over the shop, thirteen people set up a mailing list, and . . . From there, it grew. The portal was created around the community, rather than the other way around. At no point did anyone sit down and decide to create a community. The community was already there."

this was taken from a section of 'What is Social Software.'

Here Meg says that a community already existed and the mailing list (social software) was created in response to a need within the comminity to communicate. First of all, wasn't this community built on the communications of people through a blog? Isn't a blog an example of social software?

seems contradictory to me.