Scroll through past posts on GigaOM and other tech sites and you’ll see a litany of new gadgets, gizmos and apps. There will be plenty of speculation on new ways of working and no shortage of predictions for the future. All of this is fascinating, but it sometimes makes you wonder what all of these new technologies and ideas add up to on the ground. MORE >>

I have admired the capabilities within Socialtext for some time. It was one of the early enterprise 2.0 providers, well before the term was coined. They began with a wiki base and have added capability over time to build a comprehensive platform. couple of years ago they added Socialtext Signals, one of the first enterprise micro-blogging tools. MORE >>

Readers will recall my multiple calls for “ metaservices ” that begin to unify our disparate online worlds of data. Today’s announcement of Slice , which does just that for online purchases, albeit through an email hack, is a step in that direction. For now, the email approach is an elegant workaround. More at TNW. MORE >>

My good friend and colleague Joan Blades has just posted another thoughtful article about the virtues sand values of teleworking (“ Telework: Help Solve Climate Change by Staying Home “). She starts with this: Would you believe me if I told you that we could take a big step to combating climate change simply by staying home from work? MORE >>

Martin: "Librarian Perceptions and Information Literacy Instruction Models" (the "models are "for-credit courses and course-integrated library instruction") - Michelle Kathleen Dunaway: "Connectivism: Learning Theory and Pedagogical Practice for Networked Information Landscapes" This journal is priced: the home page is here. MORE >>