time wasting
without precise goal and time span - its all to easy to get distratced with other comments and hyperlinks, take you away from what you went out to search for in the first place.

Need to be more selective and more ruthless with time mangement - yes easy to waste time - I seem to have no spare time as it is.

Useful tool
Like the idea that we can customise the blog homepage. A truly connected document with lots of resources that can be interconnected.

New template in the future will help.Hopefully tools can be provided to help develop the community.Good place to start on the web.I've started to use it as my homepage easy place to start on the web.

As you change , evolve and adapt the blog can be altered to suit you unique circumstances.The thoughts are not necessarily there to be shared with everyone , but they are transparent, recorded , retreivable, and comments can be made, wrong or right that is for your own cognitive editor to monitor and as your skills develop - I feel a useful tool to help with connectivity.

Weblogs, once again on the cutting edge of the internet, are starting to move in this direction, with the recent launch of two major advertising services, Google Ad-Sense and BlogAds.

Free forum
The ProjectForum software runs as a server application on a central server or your own computer, and you and others use your web browser to connect to the software, the same as you would any other web site. All regular use by you or your users therefore is done via any standard web browser (IE, Netscape, Safari, Opera, etc.) running on any platform.

The software is designed to be able to run on your normal desktop computer if you want; you do not need to have special "server" hardware (though you can certainly put it on a server if you have one available), existing web server software, etc.

The computer you run the software on should be regularly connected to the network (e.g. have a static IP address/name), be able to listen on port 3455 or another port such as 80, and at least 5mb of free disk space (though you'll want more as your groups use ProjectForum).

The server software will run on any machine running Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Mac OS X 10.1 or higher, Linux (kernel 2.2 or higher), or FreeBSD 4.5 or higher.

free forum tools
http://www.courseforum.com/projectforum/

Wiki Is Not Your Blog
Wiki discusses a lot of different things - books, movies, software, politics, philosophy ... even Wiki itself. In general, however, if it's not something you'd like other people to edit, delete, modify, rephrase, and wail on, this ain't the place for it. In particular,

Universal Blog
Wiki is like a universal Blog!! The blog concept taken to a extreme. It does not even has to be linear. You can even blog in other blogs than yours. This blog belongs to nobody and to everybody!!

Prefer my blog but wish it had more tools- need some more tools though i.e more templates - spatially orientated- need grahics designs for sophisticated layouts.

True personal home page to scribe , note , link reflect , delete , allow other s to comment , add pictures

Or rather, anyone can be a reader, writer, moderator, or all three. But remember, WikiIsNotYourBlog.

http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/BlogCategoryBlogging%20about%20Blogging

Wiki or blog
The software interface - the tools of the trade

is it to wiki or is it to blog - which is the fairest of the lot ???

general or specfic ??

userfriendly or complexity and/or flexibility ??


http://www.iawiki.net/IAwikiBlog/Discussion

ECA which one - commentary 2000 words and TMA to do!!!

Lots to catch up.

Seems like I'll have to focus a bit more next week if I am going try and meet the deadline.

Difficult to gauge the depth based on the word count , will have a supericial perpective to it or may be not!!

Holidays - Sun , who wants to work on the PC now.

digital divide
http://www.cyberlearning.org/samplecourse/sample_course.asp

http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/sections/index.cfm

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/presentations/nmci01/sld002.htm

http://nici-mc2.org/de_toolkit/pages/toolkit.htm