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Stephen Fry should be made patron saint of England, according to a new study. The survey of 7,000 users of social networking website MySpace found that people think St George’s Day needs a “radical refresh”, including the actor and presenter being made a patron saint, the Sex Pistols’ song God Save The Queen being made the English anthem and …

Jason explains why you might want to avoid answering all those quizzes on Facebook, then joins in on some celebrity social-networking gossip.

Recovering from storms is a long road for many Huntsville school board considering adding time in classes Suspect arrested as friends mourn teens killed in wreck 3 fire departments respond to New Market fire Firefighters were on the scene of a house fire for more than an hour and a half Monday morning in New Market.

Architects of the Holyrood parliamentary system have called for greater public engagement 10 years after devolution.

Waukee city officials have rejected a page on the social networking Web site Facebook and voted to trademark the city’s name to avoid its unauthorized use.

Ashton Kutcher has been challenged to a “Twitter race” by The Hills’ Spencer Pratt.

Police say four men are charged with killing a Sunrise man in a case of mistaken identity that started with threats made on a social networking site and through text messaging.

An NDP candidate has withdrawn from the B.C. election over racy photos that surfaced on the social networking site Facebook.

One small message from Oprah , one giant leap for Twitter . On Friday morning, Twitter received the blessing of Oprah Winfrey, one of Middle America’s most influential tastemakers, when Ms.

Tony Des Lauriers’ ever-changing shifts as a care worker would have made it nearly impossible to volunteer during the ongoing provincial election campaign in British Columbia.

Blenheim Palace is set to host a music festival in the summer to raise A 1m for soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How is the educational landscape going to change in the near future? Which are the key trends and new directions which are going to influence the most we study, research and learn?

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New, decentralized forms of learning such as personal learning environments, non-traditional and more flexible approaches like just-in-time and informal learning, are bound to shape differently not just the way you learn but more than anything the way you think and conceptualize learning as an activity.

How much the ability to share, to connect to other people and networks and to leverage collaboration technologies will directly affect your ability to learn?

In this digest on the future of learning, George Siemens brings together some of the most interesting pointers, news stories and data trends on this topic, allowing you to get a glimpse of the educational panorama awaiting us.

Here some interesting resources for you to explore:

The use of internet for campaigning, being tested in India in the ongoing general elections, will emerge as a powerful medium when the world’s largest democracy is ready for the next, concludes a leading tech publication.

Republicans have lost their grip on Congress and the White House, but they claim to have American anger over taxes and the economy on their side as tens of thousands turned out for anti-tax “tea parties” around the country.

My first wireless data device was the first T-Mobile Sidekick and I was pretty excited to be able to quickly bang out emails and instant messages on the device.