12 Ways to be More Search Savvy

http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/09/cracking-the-code-to-the-best-google-search/

Just in time for Talk Like a Pirate Day...

http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/academic-papers-are-hidden-from-the-public-heres-some-direct-action/

An interesting piece on the current state of academic research and the chokehold that academic publishers have managed to secure through capital control.  What to do about it?  The ethical answer may actually lie in piracy...

How Video Games are Changing Education

http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/08/25/how-video-games-are-changing-education/

A great little mind map of some of the inter-relationships.  I'm glad we are moving beyond just looking at sim games.  Of course the big question is how all this multi-path nonlinearity will impact on curriculum design