Windows Live Writer is a Great Blog Authoring Tool

So I'm writing this post using the beta version of the blog authoring tool Windows Live Writer, which you can download here.  I really like this piece of software and am going to start using Live Writer to draft all my blog posts.  (Note: don't bother if you use a Mac.)

Windows Live Writer is a downloadable application that allows you to write blog posts using a WYSIWYG editor. ...

Learning Languages the Web 2.0 Way

As a current student of Mandarin, I've been looking at the resources the web has to offer to help extend my classroom learning.  The result of my search has been a few sites that are using innovative strategies to help foreigners learn Mandarin and, hopefully, turn a profit in the not too distant future. ...

A Call for Newspaper Research

We've been happily surprised by the response to our recent newspaper study.  The most exciting part has been the additional research that other bloggers have performed in their home countries.  So far, sister studies have been performed in Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.  The response is an example of all that is great about the Internet....

New Zealand Newspapers

We found another study of international newspapers this morning, this time from New Zealand.  Web designer and journalist Fraser Mills saw our study of US papers as well as the Italian study and UK study, and decided to do some research of his own.  Here is his chart summarizing his results:

Fraser's results help to reiterate our theory that the US is leading the pack in terms of Web use by newspapers....

Newspapers in the UK

We received some more help this morning in our newspaper research.  This time, it came from the UK, where BBC English Regions Community Producer Robin Hamman put together some research looking at the UK's top 11 newspapers.  Here is a chart summarizing his findings (click on the graph for a larger view):

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