Some of you may remember that I mentioned that blogs could be written and edited from a blog editor such as ecto. This means:
- you can do it anywhere you have net access,
- it overcomes any browser/platform compatibility issues and
- gives you added functionality such as a spell checker.
I am writing this post from a new tool called Writely. It is basically an online word processor that allows you to
- edit and format documents
- save them as word, pdf or html format
- post to your blog
- collaborate on a document with others
One of its nifty functions is that more than one person can access and edit the document at the same time and the edits are synched every few seconds. If any of you feel like trying it out to collaborate on the Judith Miller exercise that would be exactly the sort of thing it is designed to facilitate
This is yet an other example of “social software” that I have been talking about – of the movement from web based publication to web based collaboration.
