OpenOffice's Impress program is the most feature rich, free multimedia storytelling tool ever released. I can't wait to see what
people create with it.

Here's an entry from Einstein's blog. "School was so boring today. My mind was racing at the speed of light and the teacher was progressing at a snail's pace. There have got to be better ways to teach and learn."

Blogging extends the concept of personal journalism in new ways. Another neat personal journalism tool is the Tele-Recorder 350 phone tape recorder ($50 from Ahern) which lets anyone with a telephone record a phone conversation to tape. It's possible to digitize such conversations and distribute them as audio over the web.