I have often recommended academic.live.com by Microsoft as a worthy rival to Google Scholar. At the very least, it was superior in its interface and sorting capabilities. Unfortunately, it provided much less relevant results in the humanities (focusing on more recent publications).

iBreadCrumbs.com offers a simple way for students to record their online research and share their results with others. It works by installing a toolbar in Firefox (version 2 only so far) that can be turned on when you're doing research and collects websites you find relevant.

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.

Vertov » Getting Started

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: