Today's Independent reports on ground being broken in SE1 by residents of the Jam Factory development, who have created an extremely well functioning virtual community, a website, with forum, blog and intranet, called MyJamFactory. What makes MyJamFactory so special is that it's good. Very nicely designed. Very smoothly functioning. Very useful. And treated with respect by the end users - who have harnessed the power of the internet to promote and enable neighbourliness:

The intranet has myriad uses. People might use it to find a cleaner or to arrange piano lessons, says Bond. "When I e-mailed to say: 'I'm going to pick up some wine in France, does anybody want some?' I had 10 orders from people. Someone might say: 'I've had my bike stolen, does anyone know a good lock?' And when someone was mugged recently, people rallied round, sending messages of support."