Two examples of the sort of caring, sharing, collaborative ethic that the Internet has afforded us all, the Centre for Bioscience ImageBank consists of freely available images contributed by academics, researchers, Learned Societies, industry and individuals with rights cleared for educational purposes and the Woophy site - the WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who "believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world." Raises all sorts of folksonomy-type issues ...

This latest issue of Innovate - June/July 2006 Volume 2, Issue 5 looks interesting, the lead paper is by Sir John Daniel and Paul West on the digital divide - a topic that I remember was always close to JD's heart when he was VC here at the OU (Vice Chancellor @ The UKOpen University). Then there's papers on the use of 'social software', wikis, chat rooms and plagiarism, Creative Commons and, lastly, retention. Something, as they say, for everyone!