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The article presents the author's assessment on the progress of social cataloguing web application. These include the launch of LibraryThing, a web application for storing and sharing personal library catalogues and book lists, and the availability of British Library and the Library of Congress' catalogues. It also answers the question on how reliable and comprehensive is the cataloguing information.

The article provides information on various free resources for writing online. YWriter2 which is created and is maintained by a novelist; OpenOffice Writer3, a comprehensive and easy to use as MS Word and wikidPad4, a wiki-style notepad which supports the cross-referencing of information easily are some of the free high quality word processors available. JaLingo5 allows users to look up words in a dictionary from their desktop. MediaWiki10 allows easy publishing of web pages online without using an FTP program.

This article reports that Sage, H.W. Wilson Co., Continuum and Macquarie, the four leading reference publishers, have brought new content to xrefer's online reference service for 2005. The four publishers will contribute key titles to its xreferplus Ready-Reference service in a broad range of subjects including history, literature, medicine, technology and more.