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Like most marriages, the tie between citizens and the big corporations that dominate the web is one of both great joy and intense resentment. On the one hand, they are very good at helping us with web chores: Need information? Google has more of the stuff than you could ever process. Want to keep in touch with friends? Facebook eliminates the need to pick up the phone. On the other, they do not always give us the space we need. Privacy, it seems, is becoming the thorn in the side of this marriage of convenience.

Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends.

Useful reference on using Fusion Tables

Enter data in a spreadsheet to have 'visually rich, interactive timelines' created.

repository of working papers in Economics.  Seems like an open way of sharing ideas with several Waikato contributors.

Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends.

"'We found no evidence for any discontinuity in technology use around the age of 30 as would be predicted by the Net Generation and Digital Natives hypothesis,' says the report. What the reseachers do find interesting and worthy of further study is the correlation--which is independent of age--between attitudes to technology and approaches to studying. In short, students who more readily use technology for their studies are more likely than others to be deeply engaged with their work."

That last point is pretty powerful. Need to get the data replicated elsewhere as next stage. But as always, different people are different!

TwapperKeeper could be a community project for NZ. This shows an outcome in the ability to analyse event tweets. ALT-C2011.

All you need to know about Dropbox and more.

What students think of HE in the UK 2014.

The WHO map dashboard on cases. Countries can be clicked for more detail.