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Interesting blog post about gifted learners' brains.

Bad news for teachers - just as Ning was increasingly adopted by teachers for use as course hubs, it's gone. 

The easiest way to share events and other real-life activities with friends, Plancast easily plugs into Facebook and Twitter. The easy to use interface enables quick sharing of a plan - what, when, where - with the options to include a description, link, locations and maps. You can tag your plans for easy searching and the interface provides local plans that you might find interesting, and enables you to profile your social networking tools. Each plan can be shared with Twitter or Facebook and there are widgets, logos and buttons for blogs and websites. New features include a categories list. Click on the link to see an example.

Interesting article on brainstorming apps with examples of the applications

Finding and using public domain photographs

They left out Flickr Commons, though, which is a really excellent international source and allows for public tagging if you want to curate things with your own search terms: http://www.flickr.com/commons/

Using Google operator terms to search YouTube

List of search engines for flickr photos. Varying abilities to choose CC photos.

Formatting posts to Posterous with Markdown tags.

"Facts, figures, and complex calculations based on data are important, but they are not intelligence. The amazing recent events in the Middle East have brought home an important distinction between data and intelligence that is particularly relevant for IT and organizations as a whole"

Good reasons why we need to be careful with just drilling down into our data mountains whilst ignoring that the rules have changed.

Diigo : "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff."  I'm I the only one to have this problem on march 26 , 2011 ?