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"Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It works by signing you into your Gmail account and collecting only the meta-data from your account usage history. From there you can get a picture of your emailing habits from that single account, and you will be shocked at what you see."

Guest editors Gail Boldt and Bill Ayers have asked 14 leading educators to address the politics of the teacher accountability movement in America. Who benefits and who is hurt? What is gained and what is lost? How can we move forward with a more hopeful and inclusive vision of our educational future? >>> All of the contributors are motivated by an abiding commitment to democratic ideals and respect for the complex work of teachers even as they encourage the reader to take back the conversation about school reform in America.

Anyone who plans to enable Google+ features on their Google Apps account for work or school should make sure to note the privacy policy before proceeding.

Very interesting account of Myers Briggs and some of the racist and sexist undertones to the development of the test / indicator.

Book review of Consent of the Networked

A list of Twitter accounts used by Google.

"A report issued by the United States Government Accountability Office on June 6th confirms a trend of the educational publishing industry: textbook costs to students at higher education institutions are rising 6% per year on average, and have risen 82% over the last decade. The study, ordered by Congress, looks at the efforts of publishers and colleges to increase the availability of textbook price information and "unbundled" buying options as required under provisions in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA"

Account of usage levels research in Moocs comparing 3 differently sized cohorts in the same mooc instance.

First hand account of the FOE Coursera mooc collapse

An account of someone who isn't bothered about learning and won't ive feedback to students in a Mooc. Scale might be a reason but that's not the rationale being used.

Account of the Google Searching course and how Google Course Builder allows a variety of interaction.

For the searchers among you! Search on Google and get web, mail and Drive results on the one page. At the moment it is only available on personal accounts as a field trial that you can sign up for.

Site to Phone is a free service designed to send links and text from your computer to your phone or tablet. Once you have a Site to Phone account you can download a selection of extensions and browser addons that let you send information to your phone. Once your phone is setup you can recieve the information by opening a homescreen app or bookmark. If you regularly type out links from your computers web browser onto your phone Site to Phone could save you a lot of time.

Account of the MPAA losing the copyright lawsuit agaims an ISP in Astralia.

Excellent account by the excellent Audrey Watters on the really expensive, really disruptive conference populated by really rich and really cool people (well at least that's what they think when they look in the mirror).

The power of social media to recount history. The power of social media to dump accounts ...

Account of a K12 school changing it's library into a hybrid digital / physical model

Account of a copyright agreement between 2 Canadian Unis and a licensing agency which increases the cost per student 8-fold and breaks ranks with other Canadian unis.  Troubling developments.