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While face to face interaction is especially rich in ways to establish connection (touching, eating together, making eye contact, sharing common space, informal chitchat), people also establish connection through mediated communication. Blogs, wikis, instant messaging, email, chat, newsgroups, listservs, websites, and games are especially interesting forms of human communication that establish and maintain fields of connection as well as allow for the exchange of substantive information. M

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A song and video about blogging and web 2.0. Enjoy! And if you want to find out more about me

CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text.

Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

In this article we will identify resources for locating faculty blogs, identify some well-regarded faculty blogs worthy of review, and discuss how faculty blogs can benefit academic librarians and why we should be reading them as part of our regular keeping up routine. Our goal is to encourage our academic librarian colleagues to add more faculty blogs to their regular regimen of blog reading.

Wesabe is a community site that makes managing your money easy. Enjoy secure access to all your accounts, painless tools for taking control of your money and reaching your goals, and members’ tips and discussions to help you find the best values.

Casey Bisson, with the help of Jessamyn West and Ryan Eby, reports on open-source software (OSS) and its use and importance in libraries in the third issue of Library Technology Reports in 2007.

New service eavesdrops on Internet callsSoftware monitors calls, displays computer ads based on subjects spoken

Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon.

Nvu is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor based on the built-in Mozilla Composer web editor that comes with the Mozilla Suite. It has far more features than the Mozilla Composer mentioned in my Mozilla Composer Tutorials, and like the latter, it runs under Windows, Macintosh and Linux. This article guides you through the steps of creating your first web site using Nvu.

This Feed2JS web site provides you a free service that can do all the hard work for you-- in 3 easy steps: Find the RSS source, the web address for the feed. Use our simple tool to build the JavaScript command that will display it Optionally style it up to look pretty.