Week Three.  Hello Hello, are you there?

Collaborative group work is turning out to be quite a challenge. This has not happened to me before. I'm not sure what's going on. We can't manage to find a good way of communicating with one another - the blogs are disparate and scattered, GoogleSite appears to be still in beta and does not work for us. BB is klunky and arcane. And emails through the horizon system are forwarded here and there - do not copy all recipients - and we are 12 time zones away from one another.

It would help if I could understand what the assignment is: most of our discussion has centered around trying to figure out what we are supposed to be doing. The good news is, it can only get better. Today, I looked as project management software and found something called Project Pier which is pretty geeky. I'll stay away from that. It's the kind of thing I'd love to spend several days playing with instead of doing my work. I also found something called Spicebird. This looks way more friendly and is apparently from India. Both are free. Project Pier needs to be on your own server, the other is a web app.