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• Trends… - What worked pre-internet for managing information will not work today. Little surprise then that trend watching / recognition is quickly becoming a field of value for educators, business leaders, and governments.
• History and Evolution of Social Media - We are still early on the social media hype curve. Letting people connect effortlessly produces all kinds of interesting results. But the implications of easy connectivity are not fully understood.
• The Great Keynote Meltdown - It seems that a poor keynote presentation caused the audience to go into mild mob mode through the twitter back channel.
• Personal Learning Environments Conference -
  The Personal Learning Environments and Networks Conference starts next week (Oct 13-16). The event is free to attend. The event has been organized by National Research Council of Canada PLE Project and the Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba.
• Obesity, Politics, STDs Flow In Social Networks - I am interested in how networks influence learning. To date, this has received too little attention from researchers. Yes, I know, disease research generates more funds for universities
• Real Time Web and Google - Clive Thompson's argument that the real time web is leaving Google behind makes a few interesting points… but it is essentially wrong.
• Saudi Arabia: KAUST - Education is rapidly globalizing. Local views need to give way to international perspectives. For example, consider the new $12 billion Saudi Arabian KAUST
• Local Politicians Use Social Media To Connect With Voters - Something as simple as an online forum or blog - or even online consultation - is not unrealistic. Decision made in isolation and then dropped on others is no way to run an organization or a community.
• Social Network Statistics - We rely on government to provide some level of protection (in Canada we have fairly rigid rules for the type of individual data that can be shared). Even then, sites like Facebook can gain a fairly accurate "picture" of who individuals are simply by mining network associations.
• Finding Data - Let's say you have this idea for a visualization or application, or you are just curious about some trend. You can not find the data, and without the data, you can not even start