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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."

Interesting article on plagiarism in computer science, with a suggestion that this is the fault of teaching design and that students are just playing the game.

Interesting wiki debate visualisation tool.

Pioneering New Modes of Scientific Dissemination--postercasts look interesting

Very interesting post that is probably more about economics than search but nevertheless reveals the dark arts of the search provider!

Interesting article by a librarian on the role of ebooks.

Interesting specification comparison between 3 Sony eBooks and 3 Kindles. Think of the comparisons that they didn't make but still think the Sony easily trumps the Kindle.

Interesting article reporting an academic paper which suggests that forcing cognitive overload through the use of 'bad' font choices can actually improve comprehension. Make it hard to read and you are forced to concentrate on it rather than it slipping off your braincells. 

A digital safety game based on social media. Looks interesting.

Interesting post on the price of 'free' and the meaning for educational conferences

"Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most."<--new-to-me google tool, useful for feedback?

Another online mind mapping tool that looks interesting

Martin Weller accuses eportfolios - interesting post.

Very interesting and political article on the things that are really biting HE - big global things that will affect us all.

"'Qualification inflation' is how governments avoid having to do anything about underemployment, and it generates a massive bureaucracy that has its own interests in perpetuating the system."

"'The creation of video and the publishing of video is getting to the point where it's almost as easy as creating a written assignment,' says Kyle D. Bowen, Purdue University's director of informatics."s recent experience.

Fast social media versus slower ones: twitter vs blogs. Siemens stirs it up with his post putting relative value on blogging and Twitter.

Interesting post and some great comments on the role of the Khan Academy in education and whether it pedagogically sound.

"'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!

Interesting infographic