General Information

Tutorials offered by AT&T Worldnet Service on subjects including netiquette, searching, email, mailing lists, newsgroups, chat (IRC), FTP, telnet, gopher (URL updated Dec 2003):
http://www.wurd.com

Nancy White's tips for good online participation techniques:
http://www.fullcirc.com/onlinetechniques.htm

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Email

Eudora is a free, full-featured webmail product offered by QUALCOMM Incorporated. An alternative to Outlook Express or other email software:
http://www.eudora.com/

Thunderbird 0.9 is Mozilla's free e-mail client with features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more::
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Microsoft Outlook, a tool to help simplify e-mail communication, streamline group planning and scheduling:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/default.asp

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Communication Tools

Tutorials offered by Course Technology (part of The Thomson Corporation) including MOO, MUD, ICQ, chat, newsgroups, instant messenger, and links to many other tutorials relating to the internet and computers:
http://www.course.com/newperspectives/internet3/t08.cfm

MOO (Multi-User Domain Object Oriented) is a computer program that allows multiple users to connect via the Internet to a shared database of rooms and other objects and interact with each other and the database in synchronous time:
http://www.du.org/dumoo/imooinfo.htm

MOO Links, including "The Beginner's Guide to MOOing at trAce", LinguaMOO, LambdaMOO (updated Nov 2003) :
http://www.unfurling.net/moo/

An online virtual learning environment, enCore is designed for educational use, digital community building, online writing projects, online conferencing, distance education programs, or just about any educational endeavour that aims to incorporate a rich and versatile online presence. Includes a list of online MOO resources:
http://lingua.utdallas.edu/encore/

Savitar is shareware MUVE client (or MUD client by another name) for Macintosh computers:
http://www.heynow.com/Savitar/

zMUD is the world's leading MUD/Telnet client for PC/Windows:
http://www.tucows.com/home/preview/194246.html

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk:
http://www.mirc.com/

ICQ or 'I Seek You' is a popular method of communication that allows for instant messaging, chat, email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs:
http://web.icq.com/

NetMeeting is the Microsoft Windows real-time collaboration and conferencing client:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/

Chatango offers a chat tool for real-time, private, disposable, one-on-one in-page communication:
http://chatango.com/

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Collaboration Online

Swiki.net is a place where you can store and maintain files, discuss ideas, display schedules, and share other resources related to a common interest or project in one place:
http://www.swiki.net/

Wiki Wiki Web is a website written by its users. Anyone can change any page or create new pages. Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit webpage content and supports hyperlinks:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki

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Blogging

For information and links to blogging sites and tools, read the trAce article, 'Blog Fiction', by Tim Wright:
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Process/index.cfm?article=91

For a passionate review of blogging read 'Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs', a trAce article by Kate Baggott:
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=111

Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly:
http://www.blogger.com/

The Eatonweb Portal offers a comprehensive list of worldwide blogs, searchable by category, language, country, or alphabetically:
http://portal.eatonweb.com/

The CyberJournalist List is probably the internet's most complete directory of journalists' weblogs:
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cyberjournalists.html

An annotated list of weblogs used by researchers and academics as a part of their research practice:
http://cmc.uib.no/jill/txt/researchblogs.html

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Community

Howard Rheingold's Virtual Community Services, including the Brainstorms Community where "a few hundred people around the world communicate about technology, the future, life online, culture, society, family, creativity, history, books, music, media, health, home, mind, phun (sic), work and academiaville":
http://www.rheingold.com/index.html

An online community network where you can create your own online community or search for interesting communities you might want to join:
http://www.ezboard.com/

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:
http://www.communities.org.uk/

The InterActivist Network disseminates information about news-worthy events often overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream media and includes a mailing list and information on "community action using new media and technology to invigorate notions of public dialogue":
http://www.interactivist.net/

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Last edited: 20 November 2004