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A thirty-some group of really attentive people sat through my ATA presentation “From Blogs to Wikis” that I gave last Saturday, November 4th. Looking back at all that we covered in the 75-minute barrage of chattering I gave, I salute your steadiness.

All that is regarding Web 2.0 and all the new services available to us on the Internet is very exciting to me. I hope I carried some of that passion to you who attended. Moreover, I hope you will subscribe to this feed and start adding others to your Google Reader page, or some reader of your choice.

You can download the presentation by clicking the format of your choice: Flash—reads in your browser, you must click the slide to go forward; QuickTime movie—requires QuickTime to play, includes all animations and you also need to click to progress; and PDF, where each completed slide is one page.

Note that none of the documents are interactive: you cannot click a name or an image to go to their corresponding websites. In any case, here are, embedded, the links for all the slides, in chronological order:

Kevin Smokler’s Perspectives billet and his homepage;

Wikipedia for all the dates and information on services like Minitel, Prodigy and others that were used for the presentation;

The WELL, always faithful to its roots;

You need to belong to NCTA to participate in their mailing list;

Le Blog Exuberance, created by web developer, pacifist, and architecture fanatic Matt Jalbert’s;

The NCTA’s wiki for the ATA conference may soon fold in the association’s electronic attic, check it out before it’s too late;

The blog editors discussed in the presentation are WordPress.com, Blogger, Movable Type and TypePad from Six Apart, Windows Live Writer for the PC, and MarsEdit and iWeb for the Mac;

The blog/RSS feed readers included the portals of My Yahoo! and NetVibes; web readers such as Bloglines, Google Reader, and Newsgator; and the two major applications for your desktop: FeedDemon for the PC, and NetNewsWire for the Mac;

The collaborative tools discussed were Google Documents and Spreadsheets, the Java-based ThinkFree; and the Flash-based Buzzword;

The social networks brushed off were MySpace and Facebook, with their very different personalities.

If you are interested in knowing more about RSS feeds, you may want to download last year presentation or visit the ATA Language Technology Division article on the matter.

And for those into more inside secrets about the Web 2.0 revolution, you definitely need to listen to the whole KQED Forum show dedicated to the Web 2.0 Summit that was held in San Francisco in mid-October.

See you in Orlando in exactly one year for the 49th Annual Conference of the ATA!