To Bloglovers

Dear People who want to create online communities,

You have several options for creating an online presence.

You can make a website. This is the homepage of NASA http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasa_gen/index.html

You can set up your own website on geocities http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/

You can write for wikipedia. This is the homepage of wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia is an online open-source encyclopedia

You can write your own blog. Try http://www.blogger.com/start

You can also try writing for Everything2 http://www.everything2.com/ This is supposed to be a database about "everything".

You can also try writing for Slashdot http://slashdot.org/. This is another user-rated, editted community.

Maybe one of you lot can explain what the difference is between these various services. The funny thing with all of these sites is that they don't seem to explain what it is that they do, that is, their main purpose, their main audience. They have extensive "Frequently Asked Questions" pages, but that basic question doesn't seem to be answered.

Hang on, I've found a very simple solution - to understand what each of these services is all about - just look them up in wikipedia...

- Doctor Thomas