Is your Facebook update you? Is what you search for online what you want in real life? Does your online behavior reflect your personality? Yes, if Kevin Randall at Fast Company is to be believed, as he ushers in Market Research 3.0 surely they could have come up with a more original term?), which includes, among others, a chilling, post-modern sounding concept, Sentiment Analysis. suppose the human mind is going to remain the perennial Holy Grail, but does “listening to conversations” and chatter on the Web provide a better insight than focus groups and surveys? MORE >>

On the one hand, Jonathan Zittrain argues that the web is composed of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust. On the other, Evgeny Morozov suggests that the net helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, perhaps? videos short takes MORE >>

At last count, there were seven P’s of marketing. It started with four; the fifth that was added was Pace. Google search on rapid e-learning threw up almost six million results; a similar one for micro learning returned close to 32 million. recent topic of interest in the learning discipline again is agile learning , where one of the objectives, predictably enough, is “ faster design solutions. ”. There was a media story yesterday on how the Medical Council of India is planning to introduce a medical degree for rural students – a degree that can be obtained in 3.5 Take your time,” Hemberg said. MORE >>

The inevitable year-end question from the Learning Circuits Blog comes up: What did you learn about learning in 2009? Compared to the gloom of 2008 , 2009 certainly seemed to be a better blogging year for me – at least I posted more often. Here’s a chronological list of the posts that were based on learning experiences or were significant learning experiences themselves. In Learning Formats 2020 , I tried crowd-sourcing for the first time. The process was fascinating, and the results, more than satisfactory. Trying to argue for social media was thought-provoking. MORE >>

Mandar Talvekar, he of Inkscrawl fame, seems to be trying an interesting experiment, Tweet Trove. Every week, he publishes a selective digest of the links posted on Twitter in the last week. Effectively what he does is re-look at his impulsive links of the week, and filter through them to find the most meaningful pieces and aggregate them. This approach also adds a bit of permanence to the links he considers key; else they tend to get lost in the never-ending stream. Another advantage of this process is that it ensures you go through the links you put up in the week – reinforcement, in a sense. MORE >>