• 150 Geeky Media People You Should Be Following on Twitter | GeekDad | Wired.com – An interesting list. Who knows, if I add some of these (John Cleese) maybe I will find my Twitter feed worth following again…
• KODU Game Lab – Microsoft has a new tool for your budding game developers at home…

• 5 Unmissable TED Talks On The Future Of Technology And The Web | – If you like your tech learning in video form, Stephan Antonas has selected 5 videos from the wonderful world of TED on the future of Web technology.
• 10 low-cost, high-value Web 2.0 strategies | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com – Polly Schneider Traylor pulls together a very nice summary list of quick and inexpensive ways to leverage the power of 2.0

The always insightful Clay Shirky in a great interview with Joshua-Michéle Ross:

• Mobile Learning – mLearnopedia – From the site: "The mLearnopedia content community collects and organizes the best information from around the web that will help you learn and stay current on mobile learning."
• Sclipo: the social learning revolution – From the site: "Sclipo offers a revolutionary way to teach and learn online by integrating rich educational applications – such as video and webcam – into a true social network platform."

• Time to Reboot America – NYTimes.com – Thomas Friedman hits the nail on the head: “My fellow Americans, we can’t continue in this mode of “Dumb as we wanna be.” We’ve indulged ourselves for too long with tax cuts that we can’t afford, bailouts of auto companies that have become giant wealth-destruction machines, energy prices that do not encourage investment in 21st-century renewable power systems or efficient cars, public schools with no national standards to prevent illiterates from graduating and immigration policies that have our colleges educating the world’s best scientists and engineers and then, when these foreigners graduate, instead of stapling green cards to their diplomas, we order them to go home and start companies to compete against ours.”
• Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise – O’Reilly Radar – A great post from Tim gets back to what “Web 2.0″ is truly about (networked products that explicitly leverage network effects). Lately the “2.0″ sticker is getting attached to many things that aren’t really increasing value of the network.
• Adult Learning Styles – A great summary of the three major theories on different learning styles. Good to keep in mind during learning design. But remember that supporters of the universal design for learning (UDL) believes ideal curriculum design makes learning styles a moot point.
• Content Sites Bracing For 50% Revenue Slowdown – Ouch. Perhaps it is time to revisit the “freemium” model?
• When People Don’t Want to Change – Marshall Goldsmith – The great Marshall Goldsmith with a brief post about not wasting time on people who do not want to change. To help those people who do want to change, check out the Progressing Through Change tool at: http://csolved.com/ptc/
• Innovating in the Great Disruption – Scott Anthony – Scott Anthony provides interesting ideas on keeping your innovative edge in this era of constant change.
• Knewton Takes Adaptive Learning To The Next Level -

• Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is So Hard: Scientific American – A great article from Scientific American on the biology/psychology of why people are naturally resistant to change. Interestingly, it claims people are more tolerant of change during their 20s and then again after 60.
• Pew Internet: Future of the Internet – Pew Internet research releases the results of its survey on the future of the Internet. Much as expected, with the exception of one finding that surprised me: "The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness." I think we may see more tolerance overall as everyone moves to "wearing a transparent kimono."

• Ask Nature – the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature – As a biologist by training, I constantly see ways in which effective business systems mimic biological systems. This looks like a wonderful site for inspiration. From the site: "That's the idea behind AskNature, the online inspiration source for the biomimicry community. Think of it as your home habitat—whether you're a biologist who wants to share what you know about an amazing organism, or a designer, architect, engineer, or chemist looking for planet-friendly solutions. AskNature is where biology and design cross-pollinate, so bio-inspired breakthroughs can be born."
• learningscience.org – A topic near and dear to my heart. And based on the latest international test results, we need it now more than ever…

• The Semantic Web in Education (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT – Jason Ohler provides a nice summary of semantic Web and its implications for education. Though he dances adroitly around the technical (standards) problem that will make the semantic Web a challenge, he does nicely scratch the surface of the implications for learning if it does come to pass.
• The Three-E Strategy for Overcoming Resistance to Technological Change (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT – A good summary of introducing technology that will improve performance. From the article: "First, a technology must be evident to the user as potentially useful in making his or her life easier (or more enjoyable). Second, a technology must be easy to use to avoid rousing feelings of inadequacy. Third, the technology must become essential to the user in going about his or her business."

• Dust-up at Training Zone — Internet Time Blog – Jay Cross once again stirs up a great debate with his zealous rhetoric. While I’m not as strident in my views as Jay when it comes to the supposed panacea of informal learning (why can’t we blend social learning in with other modes of learning, Jay?), I do appreciate his stirring up great debates!
• Measuring Skills for the 21st Century – From the report on building proper measures: “Today, they say, college students, workers, and citizens must be able to solve multifaceted problems by thinking creatively and generating original ideas from multiple sources of information—and tests must measure students’ capacity to do such work.”

• Get Rid of the Performance Review! – WSJ.com – Samuel Culbert posts an argument against the common practice of performance reviews. This echos a sentiment that I have long held. Reviews really only serve bureaucracy and passive-aggressive accountability. High performers don't need them and low performers should be dealt with immediately through a PIP (instead of passing the confrontational buck to the end of the year). Let's improve performance by managing it instead of reviewing it!
• The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On – Stephen Downes provides a vast overview of the state of education (it covers more than just online) by revisiting his essay of ten years ago.