With 1888 videos and counting, VideoLectures.net seems to be an ideal collection of online video lectures. You must be warned that an amount of videos might be in foreign languages, and you will probably have to register to take advantage of certain features. Nevertheless you will hopefully find some lectures on subjects you are interested in.

For audible lectures Apple Education’s iTunes U has a great collection of university lectures etc.

Although both resources look good, I have really only listened to one lecture on iTunes, and you almost need textbooks or some other material to be able to follow.

In December I wrote Study Effectively with Noise and Stu.dicio.us. However compared to actual studying for a quiz, test or exam it might not help you all that much. Quizlet on the other hand seems like a good cramming solution, finding its niche in the good tradition of “virtual” flash cards.

Quizlets mission is to make learning vocabulary become more than just another “chore”. And from my first couple minutes of playing around with somebody else’s set of vocabulary (somebody’s SAT preperations actually…), it has given me a good impression. It has even given me an appetite to use Quizlet when my next cramming sessions resume in a couple of weeks.
The whole site and fashionable Web 2.0 solution is created by Andre Sutherland a high school student.

(Via Digg)

How do you actually keep your New Year’s Resolutions? Well, Alexander Kharlamov has a couple of good ideas: How to make and keep New Year’s Resolutions. A short summary of the main points: Identify the right goals, Add actions to goals, and Remind yourself regularly of your resolutions.
Adding actions and reminding yourself of your goals, is what I found most important: Breaking your resolutions into smaller To-do lists. In this way your goals should be easier to overcome.

So what better way than to have a task list where you can fill in everything on your to-do list. You can simply do this with a calendar, plugging in dates and deadlines. I have had great experience with both Entourage and iCal. Or like Kharlamov suggests, make a homepage emphasizing not to procrastinate, Google offers some good online calendar and homepage services.

There is also task list software like this one recently reviewed at 43folders: Task List: Handy student app for tracking assignments. Although this review focuses on helping students, I guess the software can be used to track other assignments as well. It also integrates with iCal, Widgets and Email, but I am not too happy that the only way of online uploading and downloading is currently using .Mac. Task List also lets you add goals and take notes. I previously wrote a suggestion for studying effectively with note taking, also check the link in the comment.
43folders, if you have not heard of 43folders before, it is a good blog about personal productivity.
For a forum-like place for resolutions and goals check out: 43things.com. (There are even people wanting to learn Norwegian, yeah!)

For another organizing tool online there is Backpack: “Backpack is a simple web-based service that allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. Backpack also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times. Tagging pages makes it easy to group related pages together.” -Source backpackit.com.
This looks pretty similar to what you can fix yourself with Google homepage and calenders, but it is an already finished product for being organized.

Bruce Schneier at Wired analyzed 34,000 user names and passwords “spoils from a MySpace phishing attack” (This attack?). Schneier concludes that MySpace passwords aren’t so dumb. Less than four percent of the passwords were dictionary words, and the majority were alphanumeric. More interestingly, when Wired compared the password difficulty of MySpace passwords, to those of corporate research from November, they can conclude that MySpace passwords are better than the Corporate passwords.

Considering the fact the MySpace users are generally younger, this does show a positive trend, and is especially promising for “Nancy19″ your future leader.

I especially liked this quote from the article: ‘We used to quip that “password” is the most common password. Now it’s “password1.” Who said users haven’t learned anything about security?’ -Bruce Schneier, Wired.

Do you remember the days, making a column of hundreds of values in your spreadsheet app, that could emulate an x-value. Maybe I just was cheap or didn’t have internet access. Of course it was all right if you had your nifty TI-85 calculator handy, but if you didn’t, or say you needed that graph for your presentation. Sure there was real software that could graph your equations, but they most likely cost money. I have not done much graphing lately, but hearing news of Calc5 made me smile.

The site is still pretty bare, but it’s nice and simple. Some extra features, for bigger graphs and maybe plotting some of your own values wouldn’t hurt either. But it’s a start. Yes, I am sure there are freebie graph calculator’s that can be downloaded (i.e. GnuPlot for PC), however internet can sometimes be just what you need, when you don’t have all your apps where ever you go.

According to one study, the typical person who participates in online communities, i.e. Nancy19, is your future leader.

Characterisitics of people who participate in online communities are:
*Fast followers
*More flexible
*Open communicators
*Aspire to greatness
*Looking for new, innovative ideas
They sum those characters up: In short – your future leaders.

(According to Attention Company, responsbile for the study)