I think it is, but man...between twitter, this, blogs, feeds, pipes (which has been a life saver for me), flickr...when are we to do anything but social communicate?
Oh, and I'm working on implementing a transmedia planning idea. if you are interested in chatting about it, get a hold of me.
I'll never get my book written, but who cares other than that, its great :J
Faris (or maybe Gina, in fact) I was just about to start a community on something else & had been looking at using seedcamp; more of a project tool but beautifully functional & its a sort of think tank/salon-like thing which will have offline meetings & could suit working to timelines too.
I guess I could do my own research but maybe you could fill me in on Ning & its capacity (eg security, option to host on own server, flexibility...)
I imagine most folks would like to know a bit more anyway unless i am the only person in the universe that's new to Ning.