Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It's a cold and clear winter day for some quick hits and varia.

• This is a pretty cool way to see how the world used Google.
• This looks to be a pretty interesting report on who uses Twitter.
• Along similar lines, this is an interesting little blog post on how to write on Twitter.
• And here is a First Monday article on learning and social media technologies, and here is a Chronicle article in another company trying to integrate social media software and teaching.
• At Teaching Thursday, we had a not tech related blog post on the ethics of test making and cheating.
• Tuesday was December 7th.  Pearl Harbor Day.  And here is FDR's famous speech.
• What I am listening to: Jay-Z, The Black Album.
• What I am reading: James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday forms of Peasant Resistance. (Yale 1985).