The Traveling Geeks’ tour of the UK this summer was one of the most intense junkets I’ve ever been sucked into. Among other things, I gave my first major talk at Reboot Britain about 21st Century Literacies, and JD Lasica captured a 6 minute interview with me about the same subject. One of the nice side-projects is JD’s survey of the geeks about our favorite productivity tools. Check out Coolest power tools of some top geeks:

Howard Rheingold

• Firefox
• CopyPaste Pro: “If I had to recommend only one tool for Mac users, this would be it. It remembers the last 200 objects of any media type that I cut or copied to the clipboard.”
• http://skype.com/ for voice over IP
• Google Talk for video chat
• Social Media Classroom (of course)
• Diigo, a research and knowledge-sharing tool
• Final Cut Express
• GraphicConverter
• Seesmic Desktop
• Powerpoint
• Wordpress
• http://www.apple.com/iphone/for video and Mobypicture and Pixelpipe apps