...because we've all — at one time or another — tripped over our own tongues trying to explain what a wiki was to someone who had never heard of one before. Now you can just show them this video. I know this will be embedded on my online comp course's homepage this fall. Link.

WriteWith is a simple new collaborative writing platform that is sort of a hybrid of a blog and a wiki. It provides the simple WYSIWYG interface bloggers are accustomed to with the added bonus of versioning, which will be familiar to wiki users.

It also comes with some other potentially neat features.From TechCrunch:

I am looking for submissions to be included in an edited collection of pedagogical materials on blogging to be published by Allyn & Bacon/Longman (ABL) in 2007 and to be distributed for *free* to interested instructors. In an unprecedented move, ABL will release this text under a Creative Commons license; that's right, folks, a major textbook publisher has agreed to test the Creative Commons waters.

I'm looking for practical handouts, activities, and assignments--things you probably already have on your hard drive (or USB flash drive) if you've taught classes or given workshops on blogging. All varieties of materials are invited. Deadline for submissions is December 15, 2006. I am inclduing the tentative Table of Contents for this project (working title (only): _Project Blogue_) below but submissions that fall outside the projected ToC are invited as well.

Some of you nerds may already know this, but Google has acquired JotSpot (more at CNET, and a handy FAQ about the acquisition). So, what, that's Blogger, Writely, YouTube, and now JotSpot! Google is cleaning up. What does Yahoo have besides Flickr?