The word wiki always reminds me of wookie and giant brown walking hairy star wars charachters spring to mind. Anyway, after setting up a wetpaint account I created a wiki. I must admit I was pretty non-plussed. The vast array of advertising and flashing epileptic inducing pixels is enough to send one crazy. I can see the potential for group collaboration though. Probably a bit of a miss for me. Perhaps more of a structured task would have been useful.

Posting text is really simple, having something meaningful to say which people will want to read and find useful is a different matter.

My first real experience of blogs came through reading personal pages. They can also be an amazing source of technical information and expertise which an enthusiast shares with the world, without blogs the rest of us would be left in the dark! I currently contribute new book lists to the Maths and Physics blog , although I create the lists using Word and then someone else posts the information on the blog.

Blogs are a really useful (and free) tool to share and update information with others quickly, easily, informally. They allow freedom to skirt around the somewhat rigid rules which can exist in the wider world. Definitely positive applications a-go-go!