I was looking for something like this not too long ago as a way to group edit a doc. I ended up using Word and posting it on the R drive, but this would have been a way for group members to access it from any computer--home or work. And the way it keeps track of edits looks interesting, too. I've only used Word's track edits once, so I'm not saavy enough to know which is better. And it's a little tough to judge how Google docs will work since I don't know if anyone that I shared the doc with is likely to play with it at all. (And if they do, will Google docs send the revision to that bizarre email address they assigned to me?) The assignment should have been to send the doc to someone else in 23 things and have them edit it so we could see what happens. I may never know...
I think I now understand where the authority rating comes from: it's from how many times the blog is linked to by other sites. I think I remember Chris Anderson at MLA talking about this a bit. He blogged about his upcoming book for two years--essentially writing it on-line. When the book came out, he asked his blog subscribers for reviews. He got 740 reviews on the 800 free copies he sent out; these linked to Amazon and drove sales of his book. So the power of a blog is in how many times it's linked to.
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