Building Your Community Online

I've recently been reading about the Burning Man Festival (www.burningman.com) held every year in the desert outside Reno. This week-long festival centers around the ritual incineration of a 52-foot-high wooden statue of a standing man, and it draws more than 20,000 visitors to the baking, late-summer Nevada desert. There are no vending machines, lodging facilities, or other human comforts provided. As you might think, this isn't the usual type of convention gathering. But the festival