Brendan has recently rolled out another home for a small, niche group of .Net bloggers, similar to the successful CodeBetter, called Devlicio.us. Brendan is a veteran of the .Net blogging scene (and another interdependent consultant). We talked about starting up another niche blogging site, but I've been too busy with other things to really help out much, so I'm glad to see that he isn't waiting for me ;). The smaller, focused community site seems to be something that works very well, but as with all communities, its success is really a function of the quality of bloggers. CodeBetter is a great example. Scott Watermasysk's old DotNetWeblogs (now Weblogs.Asp.Net ) is an example of the opposite end of the spectrum, a very large blogging community. Both styles have their own benefits and drawbacks, but I tend to like the smaller communities better. What do I mean about smaller communities? Well sites where the main feeds have daily post less than the typical Scoble blogging day. A site were I can read expect to get good focused content about a topic I am interested in reading. It is very hard for one blogger to consistently deliver good content every day. Round up a dozen to 20 good, like-minded bloggers, and well, you can create a powerful site (as seen in CodeBetter). I'd really like to do something similar for the New Jersey Developer community, but limiting myself to a geographical area, when the web is really virtual communities, well, that isn't the easy thing to do. We talked about this at the last NJ Code Camp, and I have a couple ideas to help improve this model, but, as with everything else I do, it is a matter of finding the time to experiment with things like this.