Not an active site, but content is worth a visit.
Great resource from Dennis Jerz at Seton Hill University.
Useful guide from University of California at Berkeley.
Useful advice on writing for the computer screen.
Our first Webwriting guru, still pushing into new territory.
A site with good advice on Website creation, news about online news, and other matters of concern to Web writers.
An excellent polemic on good and bad online communication.
Good way to remember the "you" attitude in online writing!
Nielsen is a pioneer in this field, and always worth reading.
Lively and readable!
When you can't make up your mind about email or e-mail, this usage handbook can help.
Excellent guide to writing English for those with English as a second or third language.
Perhaps the most exhaustive discussion on writing for the Web in its many forms.
Passionately argued introduction to writing sales copy for the Web.
Emphasis is on adapting newspaper stories to Web sites, but the principles apply to other print media as well.
Lively guide to writing for the Web, with some clear technical advice as well.
Larry Sanger doesn't trust the wisdom of the crowd, so he's no big fan of Wikipedia. But he's not like the others who get their kicks pooh-poohing the all-powerful (but flawed) wiki: Sanger had a huge hand in creating it.
These days, however, he's doing his best to make it something future generations remember only as the troubled little brat of online encyclopedias. Sanger is staging an electronic coup d'état with a new wiki called Citizendium, to be launched early in the new year. But there's a twist: the site will start out as a mirror image of the English version of Wikipedia through a process called "forking.
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By making a replica of Wikipedia, Sanger hopes to attract a bevy of experts to the project, who will then refine the wobbly content pulled from Wikipedia's infinite pages to create a resource that is authoritative and reliable. ("We descend upon their content, red pens in hand and start our own new community," he recently wrote.)
"On the day of launch, we have over 1,000 people ready to get to work, and a large portion of them are professors, graduate students, research scientists, legal scholars, technical thinkers and assorted other intellectuals.
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Question is, how far will his highfalutin model go in the unruly hurly-burly of cyberspace, where the wisdom of the crowds rules the day?
I've put a link to Citizendium in the Webwriting Resources list, and the article itself has a link as well.
Why inequality is hazardous to your health.
About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups.
About blogging in education: an idea whose time has not yet come.
My first book for adults, great fun to research and write, published in 1978.
Published in 1995, outdated in some respects, but some issues in education never change (unfortunately).
In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.
The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.
My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.
"Write a space opera," my editor said. So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.
A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.
A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.
Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.
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