I thought James Dickens of UNIX Admin Corner wrote a short but interesting post a few days ago. His post was titled "Why is IT such an Island." It was something to ponder regarding the rapidly growing IT community. Personally, I share a similar opinion with Mr. Dickens and felt it was a fair portrayal of the IT community.

Here is an excerpt of his post: "Seems like everywhere I go, people in IT act like they are on an island, they don't attend user groups, Geek/Techy relationships I have with others seem to be rare, they don't visit or much less hang out on irc (.i.e. freenode) most don't follow blogs...Read more plus comments"

I know sites like UNIX Forums are great places to get your tech-related questions answered or simply share your knowledge, but where are the social sites geared to the hard-core UNIX/Technical community. I think it would be beneficial if we had a mybloglog or blogcatalog type site that primarily focused on connecting techies.

Presumably some would say large social behemoths such as facebook (general) or linkedin (general professional-oriented) already fill that niche by having user-defined techie groups. That might be true but I think most techies join those groups as a side note. I do.