young, single but not so hi-tech

A day or so after posting that it’s the kids who know their way around social media comes this survey out of New Zealand’s Waikato University that says 80 percent of students have not heard of social bookmarking (storing and organising bookmarks of web pages).

Too busy socialising online to be worrying about learning online, huh!

power search tips for Google

Ever wanted to do more with the Google search engine than simply typing in a word and seeing what happens? Here’s a heavy duty list of search syntax that lets you do all sorts of nifty power searches and also use the search engine as a calculator, a dictionary, a phone book, a movie review guide … and more.