Konrad Glogowski has written one of the best blog entries on the nature and value of online communities that I have read recently. Maybe ever. It begins with a direct report from a community of practice, and builds to a quotation from Walter Ong that very precisely and movingly expresses the potential for technology to augment human experience and creation. Ong’s words name that haptic potential in which cognition reaches out to incorporate (the word is interesting in this context) the tool into the purposefulness and joy of our shared existence. And Konrad contextualizes, indeed frames, that quotation with breathtaking skill and a heart big enough for two chests.

Thanks, Konrad.