I thought I'd throw together a few random links which you might or might not find useful. I'm sorry if it seems OU-centric but we always speak of what we know don't we? Find your own stuff and add it here or on your own page. Look at some (or all) of these links and consider what they mean to what we're doing - do they support your own views or challenge them?

Places

The Well - Where Rheingold first started and wrote about

Communities Online - Communities Online aims to address issues of sustainability, regeneration, social inclusion and healthier economies by focusing on the use of new communications technologies in communities and neighbourhoods.

Melcrum - The Communicators' Network is the free global online community for professional communicators. Discuss challenges with your peers and get answers to your questions. Plus discover the most popular books, blogs, podcasts, events, and other useful resources, chosen and rated by fellow communicators.

eGaia - Re-inventing community, towards a peaceful, sustainable Earth. This is a blog which serves as a portal for other blogs. the author is (another) OU person

People

Tim Berners-Lee's blog

Martin Weller's blog - Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University

Thinking aloud - John Naughton is

"Tony Hirst pointed me to a lovely blog by a T189 student. It’s a stunning example of the usefulness of blogging in education. It provides the student with a tool for publication and self-expression, and it provides very useful information for teachers (e.g. in this case about the difficulties T189 students are experiencing with our Flash-based tutorials). I wish more of our students would blog."

 

Lawrence Lessig - Professor of Law at Stanford. This is his blog and also has links to his web site. Lessig is seen as one of the foremost experts on the law of cyberspace and has written a number of books about privacy and freedom online.

News

BBC piece about online communites

"Gagging the bloggers"

John Naughton's Observer column about Microsoft buying into FaceBook

People not here: Jana, Karl, Elom, Aneeka