The sheer volume of content being created and posted to the web is overwhelming. In a post brought to my attention today, Kelly Hodgkins claims that if we paused the web for 60 seconds we would miss the birth of more than 1500 new blog posts, almost 100,000 new tweets, 20,000 posts on Tumblr, 600 new videos (more than 24 hours) uploaded to YouTube and at least 12,000 new ads on Craigslist. Such a claim must also take into account that much of this content will be quite worthless to anyone but the person uploading it, of which more later. Volume of content is not the only issue. MORE >>

Tweet All of the hype around Google+ seems to have put me me into a social networking depression. Until recently I really liked Twitter but I know that it will become more advertising-centric as time goes on. Where Facebook is, Twitter will be. Along comes Google+ and it seems to address many of the issues of those who use several social  platforms; a unified dashboard, coupled with the promise of Google Takeout. Of course the price for Google+ is free, so who’s really the customer? Not me; not you. I’d like to keep it that way and own my data. That’s pretty powerful. MORE >>

Once again, aLearning is pleased to be able to save you enormous time and energy by perusing hundreds of blogs and resources to summarize those likely to be of particular interest to you. If you have any links that have been especially insightful or helpful to you, please feel free to add them to the comments section or send them to me directly for inclusion in a future Quick Clicks post.  BTW, I normally embed the links but am pressed for time — cut and paste if necessary; they wouldn’t be included in this post if they weren’t worth it. What’s the Diff?*. Julien R. MORE >>

I have, not surprisingly, had my eye tuned for new mobile uses, and have recently spied a couple of ones I had not noticed. These range from the predictable but cool to the novel (at least to me). First, on a recent train trip, the conductor had an app where she could check seats. Having missed a connection, the hope was that there were seats available on the next train. Without a reservation, the procedure used to be that you’d just grab a seat and hope no one had it reserved. The conductor, however, whipped out a device, checked, and was able to confirm all the way to the destination. MORE >>

Via LinkedIn Groups. Group: Chief Learning Officer magazine. Subject: Time to Go Back to School Virtually (For Free!). Dear Chief Learning Officer LinkedIn Group Member, The 2011 HCM Summer School event is one week away! Join Chief Learning Officer, Diversity Executive and Talent Management magazines on July 19-20 for this FREE event, which starts both days at 9:15 a.m. Eastern time. Internet Time Alliance is leading the concluding session on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 3:45 PM EDT. Our topic is whatever you want it to be. Ask a question. eid=679&seid=934& code=linkedin071111  . MORE >>