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Stuck with a 'Farm' address for a flickr image and no idea where it came from? This tip helps you sort that really quickly.

Google help page on country specific URL redirect for Blogger. Avoid the redirect by using http://[blogname].blogspot.com/ncr

Interesting post on url shorteners and some potential downsides, in short and long term.

Create your own short URLs

"TAGS Viewer allows users to browse, explore, and search a Twitter archive. As a backend, it requires Martin Hawksey's Twitter Archive Google Spreadsheet (TAGS). TAGS provides a free, non-technical method of archiving tweets for a given hashtag, which can be particularly useful for capturing a conference's backchannel. This application is contained in a single HTML file and has no server dependencies, which makes it easy to host anywhere: just upload a single file (this one!) and you're done. Or, if you don't need to share it with anyone, just double-click the file on your hard drive to open it in your Web browser. Configuration is as simple as supplying a Google Spreadsheet URL"

Neat site for making gifs from a SlideShare URL

"While viewing a presentation in Focus 4.1, you can now add a URL to your presentation that will open in a new tab during session playback."

Interesting looking tool - not tried it yet but adds any url that you tweet (or retweet) to your Delicious account.

Anything that has been bookmarked in Diigo with www.waikato.ac.nz in the URL

Great little app that lets you grap the license and other details from a flickr image.  Intended to be used when you link to an image and ensure you attribute it correctly. "With ImageCodr.org, there is no need to do all this manually, you simply enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your browser) you are interested in and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something."

"To link to any specific slide in a Google Docs presentation, click the "Start Presentation" button and copy the URL of the presentation view. Now replace the value of "start" parameter with the slide number (minus one)..."<--handy Google docs tip!

"A report summarising the experience of the University of Edinburgh of  offering our first 6 massive open online courses (MOOCs) in partnership with Coursera"

27 video primers by C.J. Bonk on e-teaching and learning topics such as planning online courses, managing online courses, etc.

Google report on what they do in education.

Article from John Egenes at Otago Uni on remix culture. "The internet and our digital convergence are rapidly transforming long-held views regarding the traditional relationship between performer and audience ("creator" / "consumer"). This change is giving a new voice to the audience, literally bringing them into the mix. With unprecedented access to the creative process, and with an audience for their creations, consumers of music are also its producers, and are reshaping concepts of creativity, individuality, and intellectual property. This paper examines fundamental shifts in the way the "Folk Process" works within this context. Remix culture, once a bastion of beat-driven dance mashups, is expanding to include all styles of music, film, theatre and art. I will argue that its long-term significance lies in the notion that it blurs lines between the traditionally separate roles of creator and consumer, and challenges long-held concepts of intellectual property and copyright. Over the protests of many traditional folk musicians and devotees, folk music is entering this new digital arena, where the Folk Process is changing from gradual to immediate, from slow to rapid, adapting to fit the new digital paradigm."

Great post in the consultation about the current NZ 3 strikes law.

"The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts with a URL string. You can embed these charts on your web page, or download the image for local or offline use."