Web 2.0 workshop

Speaker John Larkin's website (good source of Web 2.0 materials):
http://www.larkin.net.au/020_web20infoshare.html

Tools for searching blogs:
http://www.technorati.com/
http://www.bloglines.com/

Tools for searching web (and results grouped in clusters or categories):
Overwhelmed by the information out there???... you may want to try the following:
http://www.vivisimo.com/
http://www.kartoo.com/

A tip I got from the speaker on starting a blog on a specific topic: Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/ to find the relevant links below and find some suitable sites

To have a blog on site (which maybe easier to manage if you want a more secured site), one freeware to use:
http://wordpress.com/

Bringing everything together (and embedded in the blog) and getting the latest update:
http://jaiku.com/

Discussion online real-time with concept of followers:
http://www.twitter.com/