I'm sitting in a hotel room today, trying to get back to good health for the rest of the week. In my current condition, there's not much energy to do too creative stuff so I've been mostly catching up with weblogs and forums.

Somehow I happened to find workingwithrails.com, a web site for helping the Ruby on Rails community "connect".

In general I like ideas that help a community hang together but I am having trouble deciding whether I like or dislike this popularity contest.

LinkedIn and other social networking sites do something similar but the above list feels somehow a bit in-your-face.

Am I becoming too American?