Fun things

• Boing Boing - directory of wonderful things
• Common Craft - short explanatory videos
  
• Crosswords for fun
• Dilbert
  
• Encyclopedia of South Australian Culture
  
• Free Web-based Tools
• Google Earth
• Human Clock  
• Zefrank

Blogs

Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly. Many bloggers update their blog daily. A blog may contain information on a specific topic or be a personal daily diary, a forum for the expression of political views or social commentary, or for any other kind of personal or collaborative expression. 

• Adelaide Index - Adelaide blog directory
• Blogarama - blog directory
• Gnoos - blog index with a southern hemisphere focus
  

Create a blog

You can set up your own blog using free software that's available on the web 

• blogger.com
• Bloglines
  
• Typepad  
• WordPress 
  

Wikis

A wiki is a website that is created by a group. Visitors or group members can edit the content of a site, create new content and change the organisation of existing content on the web from their own computer.

Wikipedia is one of best known examples of a wiki.

Find out more about wikis by watching a short video, Wikis in plain English. 

Create a wiki

You can set up your own blog using free software that's available on the web

• PBwiki
• Wetpaint
• Wikia
• Wikidot
• Wikispaces

Photos

• Flickr
• Photobucket
• Picasa
  
• Picturetrail
  
• SnapFish
  

Videos 

• BlipTV
  
• TeacherTube - educational videos
• YouTube

Social networking

• Bebo
  
• del.icio.us - collections of favorites online
• Digg
  
• Facebook
• Library Thing - connect with people who read the same things
• MySpace
• SmartMobs
  
• twitter

Free email services

• Live Hotmail
• Gmail 
• Yahoo!7Mail