An interesting discussion was sparked by an article in the Guardian about the problems with Google search. 

A beta version of a new free tool that integrates with the reference manager Zotero has been introduced. It promises to offer radical improvements to researchers using new technologies.

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Here's an interesting example of the use of YouTube as both object and medium of study. YouTube is somehow seen as not serious but when I needed to figure out how to use a new video editing program, that's where I went. Here are a few other ways in which YouTube has been very helpful to me in just the last month:

Digital ethnography seems to be on everyone's lips these days but what is it? A year ago Mike Wesh of Kansas State University tried to lay some foundations to where we might look with his 'new media' excursus into Web2.0: