Sue Thomas brought this old (2003) but valid discussion of online community to my attention http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.htmlA Group Is Its Own Worst EnemyClay Shirky
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Blogs are being used increasingly by academics http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4194669.stm”
http://www.writingfix.com Interesting collection of writing prompts and inspiration, including for kids.
Here’s an interesting guide to live online chatting in an educational context from the University of Birmingham OOnline chat advice Has a lot of similarities with our own advice to participants, but I like their designation of the three roles which we tend to concatenate – although when Deena and
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/ The British Library are collecting history – and want people’s stories….
Digital paper goes commercial…. but will it work? Soon you could be reading a book printed on electronic paper. Sony, Philips and digital paper pioneer E-Ink have announced an electronic book reader that is due to go on sale in Japan in late April for $375 (£204). BBC news: Digital
Cheap place to buy domain names and simple hosting packages (recommended by Carl) Lycos
Beginners’ Guide to FTP Introduction to blogging for creative writers http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/hw/blog/creative/
The Unusable Web on Asterisk http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives/unusable_web.php Perhaps blogs ARE where the best writing is at these days.
Don’t know how I missed this a month ago – but thank goodness there is someone fighting against the worst features of the new Net http://money.guardian.co.uk/scamsandfraud/story/0,13802,1086308,00.html