Issue 51 of Ariadne published recently contains, among others, an article by Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy on the COINE Project, an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories on the Web, an article by Henry S.Thompson who introduces the W3C Technical Architecture Group and its work, while Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen, in the first of a two-hander, describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle. Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe Citeulike, a tool which assists researchers gather, collect and share papers. There are also articles on Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework, Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching, as well as the Search Engine Ask and on OpenID, decentralised single sign-on for the Web. Eddie Young and Matt Thrower of UKOLN share their trials of a form of server management while Steve Hitchcock”s article on project video production is an encouragement and a caution. Jessie Hey and Chris Awre together with Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey of UKOLN report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference. Pete Cliff of UKOLN obliges with a review of “Digital Literacies for Learning”.