Thing 18: ZoHo Writer seems easy enough to work with, and not having to worry about whether the software is in place on your computer is a plus. But, I thought it still had the annoying albeit minor glitches, if you will, that Word has.
Thing 19: I first looked at "Listdump", which was under "Lists and Polls", and certainly the second syllable of the name is appropriate because that's where some of these "lists" belong--in the dump! I gave up counting the porn lists after 8. Can you imagine your 10-year old daughter or son exploring Listdump because, like me, they love to make lists and want to add their own, and being confronted with garbage like that? I guess this is my big problem with "anyone can join in and add or subtract items" things like wikis. And, also, who monitors these? Can't we have some kind of, well, censorship? I can just breeze by junk like this, but why should a child be smacked in the face, so to speak, with this?
On a more pleasant note, (and for a breath of fresh air), I looked at Biblio.com (which checks on out-of-print books) and entered a book I remember borrowing many years ago, and finding it for sale, which was rather a nice surprise. I checked out one more site, Reader2.com, and saw that it had a "what book to read next" search, but every time I put in a title, there were no hits. (And I entered popular titles such as The Da Vinci Code, and Jack and Jill, by James Patterson.) So, it seems that, to be effective, this site needs much more input from people. If only a handful of people participate and add their thoughts and lists of books, a site such as this won't be very helpful.
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I know what you mean about the "dump". Unfortunately this is a huge downfall for wikis. Thankfully, I didn't find what you did on these particular sites, but have been "smacked in the face" from other sites, including some of the listings of Library 2.0. "Common sense" and "common courtesy" on the internet just doesn't exist.
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