At this point in my life, I no longer care about any of that. I have lost interest in the community, and I really do not wish to interact with people through my web site. Since Soapbox 100, I've cut off communication with other web designers, other personal site authors, all of that. It is simply no longer important to me. I learned nothing from them, after awhile.
People are so specialized now, placing no value on being well-rounded.
Many of the computer techheads I run into laugh at going back to school instead of earning the money they're making now. As if that leads to fulfillment. Maybe, for some, it does. The concept of knowing things that don't affect your job is foreign to them. Intellectual death at age eighteen, with sixty to seventy years left to live.