Some News sites also have interactive sites within. For example, on BBC News Blog there is a learning site (BBCi Learning) that involves interactive activities and over half a million pages of factual information and resources available for children, adolescents, and adults. There are competitions and all sorts of games to help educate people in any and every area of interest imaginable.

Another great aspect of these on-line News sites is ability to access archival information. You can watch video and listen to audio recordings of famous historical stories right on computer. If day is Feb.3, you can read articles from Feb.3’s from fifty years ago. Looking up any date and year recorded is as easy as pushing a few buttons.

Some services have subscriptions where instead of looking up website, News you want is sent straight to your email. Being in know, and being in now, has never been such an objective, enjoyable, and simplistic experience as in 21st century. Partaking in a new perspective on life is what on-line current events and News Blogs are all about.

Blog Connections - http://www.blog-connection.com

RSS RSS is latest messaging medium and shows genuine promise as a means to communicate. RSS files are produced as XML files and are designed to provide content summaries of news or information. The biggest benefit to RSS is that it does not have spam issues inherent to email; users opt-in to RSS feeds that interest them.

RSS Specifications - http://www.rss-specifications.com

Forums / Newsgroups A forum is an online discussion group. Forums can be newsgroups, or they can be web-based discussion groups. Forums have proven themselves as valuable business resources - often creating communities of customers helping customers. Without moderation and oversight they can potentially create an unfriendly environment.

Message Board Software - http://www.messaging-software.net/message-board-software.htm

Listservs Liststervs are mailing list programs for communicating with other people who have subscribed to same list. Using e-mail, you can participate in listservs pertaining to your topics of interest. When you submit a message to server, your message is relayed to all on listserv. You receive messages from other participants via e-mail.

Yahoo Groups - http://www.yahoogroups.com

What's Next? Internet communication is intrinsically tied to hardware options available. Wireless technology has accelerated development of messaging software, opening market to a dizzying array of devices for web access. Where we were once tied to a keyboard and mouse, we will soon be navigating web with our voices from a moving automobile, or browsing via screens in our eyewear, with tiny cameras reading our eye movements to move cursor and make selections. Our interactive conversations will include more and more participants at once. Evaluating many options and choosing what works best for you is first step to effectively communicating on web.