Hi everyone. I'm happy to announce the grand re-opening of CCC Online. I've posted a longer, semi-formal announcement and description of the site over at my blog, but thought I'd post a quick announcement here as well.

What we've done is to turn CCCO into a site for the management of that journal's metadata. The content itself (i.e., articles) is still password-protected over at NCTE, but CCCO provides abstracts, keywords, bibliographies, et al. We're using Movable Type and del.icio.us to make as much of the journal accessible to searches, bookmarking, tagging, and research as possible, and we're pretty pleased with the results. It's only one journal, and we've still got a ways to go in terms of adding back issues, but there's enough up there now for you to see some of the potential of the site.

Please feel free to take the site for a spin, and to let us know what you think, either through blog comments or over email. Thanks!

cgb

There's a new online magazine, Free Software Magazine. For those of you who are not free software/open source advocates, don't let the title chase you away. The first issue release contains many articles on subjects other than free software of interest to the technorhetorician. Here are some selections, descriptions taken directly from the website:

• Format Wars by Marco Fioretti. File formats: the past, the present and a possible future
• XML: the answer to everything? by Kay Ethier, Scott Abel. This article weighs the pros and cons of XML for some applications (publishing), and explores why it is the best possible solution for many programming and publishing needs.
• The magic of live CDs by Harish Pillay. What are live CDs, and how do they work?
• The Commons by David M. Berry. The Commons as an Idea - Ideas as a Commons.

I found the writing both informative and accessible. These could make good readings for classes interested in these topics.

I dropped an announcement here a couple of months ago about the graduate course that I'll be teaching this spring, and I wanted to let folks know that the weblog for the course is slowly taking shape, and will continue to do so over the next few weeks. I don't have much more to say at this point, except to invite anyone who's interested to follow along, make suggestions, participate, etc. More to come...

Here's a great new feature in the latest release of Firefox: Mozilla Firefox's Live Bookmarks. If you are running the new preview release of Firefox, an RSS button will appear in the bottom left of your browser when on the Kairosnews home page. Click on it to add a "live bookmark" Kairosnews folder to your bookmarks which will contain the titles of the latest headlines from Kairosnews. This is a great feature for those that don't want to deal with a news aggregator but would like to subscribe to just a few sites. Note that you can add a site manually even if it does not automatically generate the live bookmarks link in your browser.