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How to get bloggers to review your book: A very thorough answer to an important question | Novel Publicity
My first novel released in late October, and I’m currently running a blog tour for it through Novel Publicity. This tour has over 200 bloggers, reviewing Farsighted , interviewing me, and featuring guest posts by yours truly ( seriously, you can check the schedule out here ). As far as blog tours go, it’s huge—in fact, I’ve never seen any bigger. Take my tour as an example. Yes, I have the benefit of running my own blog tour company, which means I have a list of over 100 bloggers ready-made. But the existing Novel Publicity host blogs made up only half of my tour.Here’s a new item for our category of soap bubble pictures . The movie shows a science-centre-style demo, not of a bubble, but of a soap sheet. It’s a way of showing patterns like the ones that appear on bubbles, but streaming down a huge sheet.
Soap Sheets | illusions and aesthetics | Optical Illusions
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Desktop QR Code Reader | dansl
What are QR Codes?: A QR code is a lot like a barcode you see on most products. QR codes are a great way to share information like websites and contact info.
A QR code is a lot like a barcode you see on most products. QR codes are a great way to share information like websites and contact info. They can be scanned using your camera equipped device and a proper QR code processing app (for Android, you can use the Barcode Scanner App; on iPhone - the QR Reader for iPhone.) Once the code is scanned and processed, QRreader takes you directly to the URL on your device, or shows you whatever else was encoded in the QR code.
Download QRreader 1.3 Free - Desktop QR code reader - Softpedia
IT Management Made Easy | GoToManage
GoToAssist Remote Support includes access to up to 100 shared unattended machines per Technician subscription. With 3 Technician subscriptions, each Technician can share access to 300 unattended machines.Jason's XeeMe
XeeScore = Social Presence Value What is it? The Social Presence Value is measured by the incoming and outgoing "Social Traffic" of a XeeMe. It is an indicator for popularity of the respective user's social presence.
Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $1.85 million research grant to work on “magnetologic gates,” a brand new computing building block made from graphene and magnetic electrodes that would replace transistors in today’s computer chips. Current silicon gates are pure logic — on or off, billions of times per second. In magnetologic gates, there are two magnetic electrodes that magnetically store data — like a hard drive — connected by a sheet of graphene. As electrons travel across the graphene their spin state is compared against the magnetic data in the electrodes, and a binary value is calculated.
Graphene magnetologic gates could replace silicon transistor logic | ExtremeTech
New Technique Turns Viruses Into Useful Tools - Technology Review
Viral films: Complex, highly structured films made using viruses could be used as optical devices and as templates for engineering tissue, bone, and teeth. Researchers have demonstrated a simple, one-step process in which genetically engineered viruses arrange themselves into extremely ordered patterns with distinctive properties, such as color or strength. The technique could be used to make novel optical devices or biological scaffolds to grow soft tissue, teeth, and bone. The researchers, led by Seung-Wuk Lee , a bioengineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, used the technique to make structured films. "We want to mimic nature and create many different types of functional structures with a very simple building block," Lee says. This work is part of a broader effort to make new types of materials using viruses as microscopic building blocks.Researcher Kevin Karsch and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are developing a software system that lets users easily insert objects into photographs , complete with convincing lighting and perspective. The system is astonishingly effective–to see it in action, watch their demo video . We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements. With a single image and a small amount of annotation, our method creates a physical model of the scene that is suitable for realistically rendering synthetic objects with diffuse, specular, and even glowing materials while accounting for lighting interactions between the objects and the scene.
New Software System for Realistically Adding Objects Into Photos
What does the future of science look like? About a year ago, I was asked this same question. My response was: Transdisciplinary collaboration . Researchers from a variety of domains—biology, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, economics, law—all coming together, using inputs from each specialized area to generate the best comprehensive solutions to society's more persistent problems. Indeed, it appears as if I was on the right track, as more and more academic research departments, as well as industries, are seeing the value in this type of partnership. Now let's take this even a step further.
Citizen Scientist 2.0
The superfow of two kinds of superconducting electrons (arrows show their velocities) as calculated on supercomputers. Graphic 2 shows superflow of the other subpopulation of electrons on the surface of a vortex cluster. Graphics courtesy of Egor Babaev.
Physicists unveil a theory for a new kind of superconductivity
Electronic Circuits Rewire Themselves on Demand, Depending On What They're Needed For | Popular Science
Static Circuitry Northwestern researchers are developing circuit technology that can rewire itself on demand. johnmuk via Flickr Northwestern University researchers--the same ones that brought us self-erasing documents a couple of years ago--are envisioning a day when computers and other gadgets can rewire themselves automatically to better suit the user’s needs at a given moment. As a step in that direction, they have today published a paper in Nature Nanotechnology describing tiny circuits they’ve created from nano-scale materials that can be resistors, diodes, transistors, or other components depending on what the computer needs them to be at a given time. Basically, they’ve created circuitry that can rewire itself in the lab. Harnessed for consumer electronics, this technology could enable a new breed of computers that are always optimized for the task at hand.MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art · lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts ·…
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Codecademy Lands $2.5 Million From Investors - NYTimes.com
Codecademy , a Web site that teaches people how to program for free, just got a lift for its lesson plan: $2.5 million in venture financing. On Thursday, the start-up announced that it raised a Series A round of cash from a bevy of noted venture capital firms, including Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly Ventures, SV Angel and CrunchFund and from a number of angel investors, including Joshua Schachter, founder of Delicious and Jig. “Our main goal is to hire people to help manage content and add new features,” said Zach Sims, who co-founded Codecademy with Ryan Bubinski, a developer and former classmate at Columbia University. “Right now, there are still only two of us working on the company.” Codecademy was introduced over the summer and has attracted a flurry of interest since then.StumbleUpon the Best of the Web
And don't forget the virus threats from stumble. Remember it's hard to control HTML 5 and stumble alike. by Dec 22
Another might be xmarks.com, diigo.com, digg of course and other varieties of social web. Also try similarwebs by Dec 22
The reason I don't like it is because it's a bit clunky of an app for the user on both ends. For instance, you might try pearl trees or diigo for your social bookmarking research, and maybe even try pinboard.in but stumble is so gap hazardous it's ridiculous to me. That just my opinion though. :-) by Dec 22
Interesting your the first negative comment about SU .Do you have a better recommendation . For something to replace it ? by Dec 22
I think it was the reverse for me . I found Pearltrees through Google search of "Mind Maps" then found SU through Pearltrees ;-) by Dec 6