links for 2009-04-27

Good words of warning for those looking to build communities.

A worthwhile exercise to move the Digital Britain conversation forwards.

Repeat after me, social networking is a feature, not a destination: "When I visited Yahoo last week researching “friendship,” they sat me down with Kakul Srivastava, the general manager of Flickr. At first I wondered why."\n\nWhen she started talking, I realized how blind I’d been. Flickr, with 36 million members and a staggering 3.5 billion photos, is an immense social network. It’s full of friendship data.

Yes, it's another piece on journalists and Twitter. But it's a good 'un.