Tweet Trove 5 (13-20 December, 2009)

Arts, Culture, Literature

OPEN Magazine | Silent Bestsellers (Indian Writings in English) : http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/books/silent-bestsellers

Fantasy & Sci-Fi Magazine Art: http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/36092/fantasy--sci-fi-magazine-art

Travel - 25 Authentic Asian Experiences: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1934455,00.html

10 worst phrases to use at office: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/12/16/cb.worst.phrases.work/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Education, e-Learning

@thoughts: My Learning 2009: http://simply-speaking.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-learning-2009.html

What Matters Now: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/what-matters-now-get-the-free-ebook.html. Free e-book of ideas from 70 thinkers.

Humor

Google confirms the loneliest number: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2009/12/17/google-confirm-1-loneliest-number/

The most frequently asked question in webinars and workshops: http://brandon-hall.com/janetclarey/?p=1623

Internet, Science and Technology

Top 10 Astronomy Pictures of 2009: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/15/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2009/

The many uses of Twitter (+ The Six Twitter Types): http://www.ngonlinenews.com/news/many-users-of-twitter/

The idiot's guide to Google Wave: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/the-idiot-s-guide-to-google-wave-655127

Five Technologies That Will Keep Shaping the Web in 2010: http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/five-technologies-that-will-keep-shaping-the-web-in-2010/

100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists: http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/06/18/100-incredible-lectures-from-the-worlds-top-scientists/

Tweet Trove 4 (6-12 December, 2009)

Apologies for the delay in posting this one - No connectivity for most of yesterday and when finally I could access the Internet, data seemed to be percolating through thick molasses.

Arts, Culture, Literature

Classic Twitterature - University of Chicago students reinterpret great works of literature into Twitter-speak: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Classic-Twitterature-78848847.html

When bad covers happen to good books: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/books/review/Queenan-t.html?_r=4&ref=books

Are Writers Using TMA (Too Many Acronyms)? : http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=78&aid=173933

Business and Economics

The wonderful world of Walt Disney (infographic) : http://www.busmanagement.com/news/walt-disney-productions/

Education, e-Learning

How iPhone Could Reboot Education - Abilene Christian University has a go: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/iphone-university-abilene/

Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009: http://www.elearninglearning.com/wpblog/top-elearning-posts-2009/

Humor

Parenthood be not proud: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/12/04/traister_parenting_makes_me_dumb/index.html

Facebook suggestions (ahem) : http://xkcd.com/672/

Internet, Science and Technology

In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number: http://www.physorg.com/news178220995.html#top

Gallery: The Year's Most Amazing Scientific Images | Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/science/gallery/2009-12/gallery-years-most-amazing-scientific-images

BusinessWeek -Beware Social Media Snake Oil: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_50/b4159048693735.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories

11 Google Chrome Extensions, For Starters: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/05/11-chrome-extensions-for-starters/?utm_source=feedburner

Etcetera

"Can you break your culture of silence?" - Sunitha Krishnan's fight against sex slavery: http://on.ted.com/287S

If you can save some trees, why not save some lettuce? http://cafehayek.com/2009/12/save-the-spinach.html

Tweet Trove 3 (29 November-5 December, 2009)

Arts, Culture, Literature

Top Words of 2009: http://www.languagemonitor.com/news/top-words-of-2009

Business and Economics

Do prostitutes want prostitution to be legal? Is a pimp no different than a corporate manager? More Q&A: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/superfreakonomics-book-club-sudhir-venkatesh-answers-your-prostitution-questions/#more-22489

The dark side of Dubai: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

Education, e-Learning

The Psychology of Achievement In Playing Games: http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html

e-book: Theory and Practice of Online Learning (caution: 484 pages; pdf): http://www.aupress.ca/books/120146/ebook/99Z_Anderson_2008-Theory_and_Practice_of_Online_Learning.pdf

Discursive Learning:Knowing "What is missing in educational curriculum is this sense of play, this sense of tinkering." http://discursive-learning.blogspot.com/2009/11/knowing.html

EnerCities - The First Serious Game On Facebook: http://seriousgamesmarket.blogspot.com/2009/12/enercities-first-serious-game-on.html

Humor

Elementary My Dear Watson: http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/?p=1096

Why Twitter? http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-24/

If the Bible was magazines: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1795235

Internet, Science and Technology

Is slavery the new green energy? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/03/cycling-energy-slavery

How our brains build social worlds: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427370.500-how-our-brains-build-social-worlds.html?full=true

TwHistory: http://www.twhistory.com/?page_id=2. Intriguing use of Twitter.

An alternate oral history of the last decade - If Al Gore had won: http://2010.newsweek.com/essay/if-gore-had-won.html

The journey of a tweet -- How 'tweets' become worldwide news within a matter of minutes? http://www.ngonlinenews.com/news/the-journey-of-a-tweet/

Periodic table - social media elements: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyecube/3302969531/sizes/l/, Internet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/2053007240/sizes/l/, 28 more periodic tables: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/2009/12/not-your-grandmothers-periodic-tables-30-charts-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-chemicals.html

The Seattle Times is using Google Wave to catching a killer: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/google-wave-manhunt/

Etcetera

The World's 18 Strangest Roads: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4338387.html?page=1

What TED didn’t get about India: http://www.financialexpress.com/news/column-what-ted-didnt-get-about-india/539729/0

Rectangles Vs. Triangles: The Great Sandwich Debate : http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120914097

Top 100 global thinkers: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=full

Tweet Trove 2 (21-28 November, 2009)

Arts, Culture, Literature

"Publishing is changing. I’m ready to see what it turns into and change my expectations with it." http://bit.ly/1weHjv

How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer: http://www.copyblogger.com/twitter-writing/

Business and Economics

The amazing world of Coca-Cola (infographic): http://www.busmanagement.com/news/coca-cola/

Education, e-Learning

Educational games and interactivities from National Geographic: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/games

2009-2014 forecasts of the US market for e-learning: http://tinyurl.com/ydypry8. (Caution: pdf)

A Quick Guide to Social Learning - 100+ examples of the use of social media in learning: http://c4lpt.co.uk/handbook/examples.html

Humor

Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/twilight-lessons-girls-learn/

Internet vices: Twitter is crack cocaine? Facebook = cranberry vodka? http://www.patrickmoberg.com/internet-vices/

The Chronicles of Narnia? http://xkcd.com/665/

8 ways to kill an idea: http://www.samiviitamaki.com/?p=336

Internet, Science and Technology

Evolution of storage (infographic) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/7979419@N02/4131812966/sizes/l/

The story of the Titanic Gulp - big *is* beautiful: check out this lovely piece on how whales dine: http://bit.ly/6aBfh6

"Wikipedia is now part of the establishment" Fears over future of Wikipedia as 49,000 volunteers leave site: http://bit.ly/6PnDHN

A useful compendium: Jane Hart's Guide to Social Learning: http://icio.us/db40th

Evolution vs. Intelligent Design: 6 Bones of Contention: http://bit.ly/6mpg6N

Google Image Search meets the Visual Thesaurus: Google Image Swirl -- http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/

Top 5 Misconceptions About The LHC : http://bit.ly/8tBx8G

Silence! The Last of the Giant Radio Telescopes Is Listening to the Universe http://bit.ly/1x4wzo

SETI: Building a Better Alien-Calling Code -- http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/better-seti-code/

Tweet Trove 1 (15-21 November, 2009)

This is the first Tweet Trove — a selective digest of the links I posted on Twitter in the last week. To read all my tweets (including the inane ones) or to follow me on Twitter, head on over to my Twitter page—InkScrawl.

Books, Reading, Writing, Popular Culture . . . (Basically, Literature and Arts)
"One of the essential joys of reading is the serendipitous encounter with a new word." http://bit.ly/1lEEsB

The best way to think of "The best way to think of . . ." http://bit.ly/5ns7g

Single-word advice on how to be a "real" writer: http://bit.ly/HTput

Robert Crumb explores the Bible's dark side in comic book Genesis: http://bit.ly/3w49NU, Sample artwork: http://bit.ly/1BPekY

Enid Blyton banned from BBC for nearly 30 years because the corporation thought she was a "second-rater" : http://bit.ly/JAwX0

Enid Blyton was banned from BBC for 30 years. How could they resist? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/16/enid-blyton

The "complex perfume of aging books" may soon be used to help preserve valuable ageing titles: http://bit.ly/1iz21M

Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/unfriend/

Ten Common Phrases That Could Soon Be History: http://www.steverubel.com/ten-common-phrases-that-could-soon-be-history

Internet, Social Media, Web 2.0 (In other words, Science and Technology)
Are you good enough to join Google? 15 Google Interview Questions (That Will Make You Feel Stupid) http://bit.ly/31uoMV

Lines in the Sand: http://bit.ly/15ugwv, a good analysis of Google's “Don’t be evil” & 6 principles for companies building services online.

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell: http://bit.ly/3R5kW8

Which Social Media tool for which worker? McKinsey answers. http://icio.us/wuatze

The nine tribes of the Internet - A Pew Internet Study http://icio.us/f3zmth

The Man Who Made You Put Away Your Pen: http://bit.ly/2QklHO

Humor
How to survive the end of the world, Emmerich style :) http://bit.ly/1IfeFF

Some joker once said, “I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it.” http://abstrusegoose.com/209

What to do when a curious pigeon is trapped inside ur multi-million dollar, govt-issued nuclear briefcase: http://www.pigeonimpossible.com/

Religion, Spirituality, Philosophy
Would Jesus save aliens? http://bit.ly/37Fusy

Etcetera (The usual "Miscellany")
Why are Post-it notes sticky? For adding information to things in unanticipated ways: http://bit.ly/1FkJgs