"Browsing" the web is certainly different from reading a book, and so browsing the web would seem to be a long way from actually composing. However, tabbed browsing can accelerate your browsing into percussive activity that can lead to writing, if you let wiki into your plan. Because, once you get rrrrrrollllllin' with tabbed browsing, you're ready to roll on into the wiki, where you can click the "edit" button or "new page" button. Go ahead, open up a wiki window, to the infinite! Do this--slow down, and write it down. Dissolve all this tabbed energy. Just place your cursor on the wiki and type a little bit about all you've seen and heard and felt on your journey. Sustainable composition practice depends on tabbed browsing, folks, so before you experiment with the online tools and resources listed on this page, and before you go any further in your wiki itinerary, be certain to install Firefox and familiarize yourself with tabbed browsing. Grab yer cheatsheet, add your addons! Repeat: to avoid unnecessary difficulty, browse with Firefox.
mechanics and style
Grammar Girl - "quick and dirty tips for better writing." Lay or lie? Ask Grammar Girl
The King's English
- H.W. Fowler's classic reference is now online
Firefox Addons
Open Office and Neo Office - free open source software that replaces Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.
speed up open office tips from lifehacker.com
koffice also like Microsoft Word, but free
Elements of Style, a classic
3 modules on clear writing style at Rice's Connexions, a creative commons of learning modules, online texts, and courses.
nonlinear adding machine got writer's block? Chisel it up, find your "un-voice"
Widget Library! this "scriptorium" shares (java) scripts for making our wiki sizzle. F'shizzle!
html color codes
Textism quick textile html converter. Very cool!
free expertise the official pbwiki community forum
zamzar free online file format conversion
zoho free online (no downloading necessary) word processing, spreadsheets, and more
pandora the "music genome project"
Freesound- just what it says...and so much more. Tab out a sound, play, play, play
musipedia by mouse or by mic: "draw notes," perform "rhythm searches," match melodies, and more
soundtransit collaborative online field recording and phonography
CCMixter a place to share and remix sonic productions.
Audacity - free and open source multi-platform audio editing and recording software. Great for making compressed (i.e. podcast-able) .ogg and .mp3 files.
legaltorrents creative Commons-licensed, legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved music, movies, and books. Explore the issues on a tight budget.
Odeo and podomatic - it's so easy to host podcasts at these sites.
phlow magazine freeculture! a hub for netlabels, netaudio artists, mp3s galore
jahtari streaming mixtapes
jazztube - an archive of jazz videos...infodynamics of sound!
compose with images
You Tube
The GIMP - free and open source graphics editing software.
Grokking the GIMP - free online GIMP user's manual.
dipity a timeline visualization tool
rhetoric
rhetorosaurus largest online rhetoric glossary in the world
kartoo visual meta-search engine
Aristotle's Rhetoric
Silva Rhetoricae the forest of rhetoric
TV Tropes Wiki amazing tool for twisting, turning, tweaking, and otherwise patterning language.
jyte claim-tester
composing in common...
TagCrowd - visualizations of any text based on word frequency
getspace send large files over gmail
ning create your own social network for anything
etherpad real-time collaborative text-editing
The Creative Commons - Learn about how to share and protect your compositions. Shareable images, books, sounds, software, and more
filedropper store files, link them to the wiki
RSSinclude mix your own rss feeds into this wiki
tiddlywiki free wiki composing tool
From tabbing to tagging: TagSearch. Find and make patterns, in wiki, using brief descriptions, or "tags."
Unblock sites
How to... instruction and revelation
Instructables how to collaborate...
the Public Library of Science
Nelson Poynter Memorial Library USFSP Library
slashdot
digg
slashdot + digg = slashdigg!
-->Open Source screen capture tool<--
-->Scribus Desktop Publishing<--
-->\"Newsletter\" - "Newsletter" Scribus file <--
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