think free

t o o s l o w

google docs

briliant! my wife is a freelancer and uses google docs to distribute information - so much better than email attachments for keeping track of collaborative work. Quite happily sell my soul to google.

wikipedia

I constantly use Wikipedia for quick reference. I was a shakespeare-librarian for 13 years and a topic sure to cause argument and disagreement is the authorship to Shakespeare's plays. Sure enough, the wikipedia article is disputed with a complicated string of accusations and counter accusations. But, the article made these disputes explicit and info. was fairly accurate.

wiki

I've been a member of SocialOULS for some time although not an active contributor.

I do manage a page on http://realspaceatox.wikispaces.com, a less-open wiki that requires membership. The info. is great but it needs more people to be involved.

Twitter

I'm twittering as jamesalanshaw - forced to expose my middle name. Love the intimacy of twitter and have read some interesting tweets from people I follow. Not really interested/motivated in tweeting personal info. but I love the intimacy/brevity of the tweets from people I've chosen to follow.