Quillstress

Well, this was a blast. Not only was it a great review for the technologies I’d already encountered earlier in the summer, but it covered a lot of new ground as well. I particularly loved the Writely demonstration. The collaborative writing exercise was such a kick, a bunch of writers creating a guide to area restaurants in a matter of five minutes…and editing each other with impunity! lol You could tell Troy was an organizer…Bulletman I’m calling him now. I’m a think as I speak kind of writer, throwing up questions as often as statements. At least two other participants were masters of the scrolling mice as they were editing two ends of the document at once, and in it all I think we approached some demented version of a Vulcan Mind Meld for just a nano second there in the middle.

This was also my first introduction to the various social bookmarking services (Del.cio.us, Spurl, Furl, etc.) and their even more varied ala carte menus of features. We spent some time exploring a sampling of “citation” and online research tools ending with Google Notebook which I’ve been playing with for a few hours now. I have a new addiction, I’m never cutting and pasting to a word document again! lol I already have four notebooks up and running, speeding around the internet like an idiot snatching anything that fits in any of them…and the notebook does all the citation work, keeping every link and dateline! Such fun. = )