The Devon LMCs, particularly the North and East one, are making increasing use of e-mail and the Website for medical political matters. Part of the East site is secured and requires a password known only to LMC members and officers to get in, but the majority of the site is open to the public eye. Links from the site lead to the BMA Division site, and the Exeter Commissioning Group site, and while we wait for the Health Authority to get its extranet going, certain documents which the HA and the LMC are discussing are exposed there.
http://www.swis.net/midgley/lmc_home.htm URL migrated 1999, correctedfor a demonstration of some of the ways a website can be used in medical politics.
2000: The LMC website is now standing alone and the above URL is obsolete. Go to www.devonlmc.org
The Trans-human alliance site is a good starting place for explorations of emerging technology such as nano-technology http://nano.xerox.com/nanotech/nanosystems.html which is as likely a cure for Diabetes as any other approach and fanciful but interesting ideas like uploading (people's minds into machines, that is)
2. There are several (perhaps even many by now) large collaborative webs, rings or in this case trees of linked sites with a common theme. Each site gives a link to a previous and next site, and there is usually a central site somewhere which maintains an index. The model seems rather useful for groups of General Practices scattered over the country collaborating on patient and doctor information.
The Tree of Life is about evolution. The frogs are particularly good.
For a flying frog picture, and others drawn by Dr Who's assistant Lalla Ward try her husband Richard Dawkins' dismissal of the Alabama State Board of Education's view of Biology. http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/alabama/alabama.htm the main http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/ evolution site is well worth a look.