Websites that changed the world

The Guardian Unlimited has celebrated the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web with an article that also lists 15 Websites that changed the world. You'll probably disagree with many of the sites on the list, but the Web has indeed changed the world....

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Online Writing Resources
Matthew Ingram at the Globe and Mail has an interesting column: Google's spot is growing. And it's not just about Google's new online writing and spreadsheet tools. Ingram looks at several other services. I tend not to be an early adopter, and while I've heard of online wiki-style writing resources, I haven't done anything with them. If you have some experiences to share (and resources to recommend), I'd love to...

Wikipedia's Watchdog
The Tyee, an online magazine here in Vancouver, has an excellent article: Wikipedia's Watchdog. Excerpt: Andrew is a tall, skinny, 18-year-old college freshman who lives with his mom and dad on Burrard Inlet's North Shore. Early in the afternoon on July 31, he settled into the swivel chair in his parents' study, turned on his computer, and began combing through the bowels of Wikipedia, the world's most popular online encyclopedia....

Housecleaning
Going through some of the links here has been a chastening experience. Having paid little attention to my original blog for a year or more, many of the links are now cobweb sites, or they've moved. I'm going to clean out the dead sites and find more good sites dealing with effective writing on the Web. If you're running a site that ought to be here, or you know of...

BlogWrite for CEOs
Debbie Weil is the author of BlogWrite for CEOs, which looks like a very useful resource complete with a list of CEOs' blogs and some free downloadable resources. I'm putting a link to it in Webwriting Resources as well....