I am convinced that the two are related, but I'm not really willing to hold forth on which one - economics or community - is prior. My suspicions lay with the former, but I don't really have an argument for that.

BTW, your link is busted as of noon on 6/3.

You can still reach me at www.chattablogs.com/mesh. The site's been behaving strangely since Josiah made the cool layout changes. But I have faith in him.