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### Serendipity: or the fundamental interconnectedness of all things > [The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it’s short for. – Douglas Adams When reading [my river of news](http://crispyj2.blogspot.com/2007/06/day-in-20-life-part-2.html), I often come across interesting cross-links and related ideas. (I guess because I am reading lots of sources there are *bound *to be some that are related....

A couple of interesting articles were posted on [Read/WriteWeb](http://www.readwriteweb.com) on Friday. In the first, Richard MacManus [discusses ](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20_all_you_need_to_know.php)the support platforms (including [Elgg](http://elgg.org/) which we use at my [institution](http://oremi.swan.ac.uk)). In the second Josh Catone [discusses](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_backpack_web_apps_for_students.php) the range of Web2.0 tools that are available to students as a sort of portable, always connected “backpack”. Although the first article provides a useful overview of some of the key ideas and platforms being used in “e-learning 2....

[Roumen Strobl](http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/) is a Netbeans “evangelist” who works for Sun in Prague. He produces the [Netbeans Podcast](http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/category/Podcasts) and numerous screencast demos of the [Netbeans IDE](http://www.netbeans.org). In this very [useful article](http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/recording_high_quality_demos_screencasts) he explains how he creates screencasts (like [this one](http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/why_netbeans)) and it’s well worth reading to find out how a professional does it! Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/).

If you want to share URLs with your students, tag your del.icio.us bookmarks with a module code. If you publish the link to the tag, your students will get up-to-date access to your links and it’s easy for you to add more. I find it much more more flexible and convenient than the External links feature in Blackboard! You can even create an RSS feed for your links! Here’s one I made earlier: del....

In my previous article in this series, I described how I use the All Items mode in Google Reader to efficiently wade through a large number of articles from my subscribed-to RSS feeds. In this article I show you how I mark, bookmark and occasionally blog about interesting items that I find in my daily news. The underlying justification for this process is an attempt to supplement my memory with minimum effort!...