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How to get bloggers to review your book: A very thorough answer to an important question
Posted on Nov 9, 2011 | 45 comments This blog post has been a long time coming. It’s one that many of our readers have requested, and today, I’m proud to deliver it. 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.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.
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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.
QRreader is a cross-platform application that can read the QR codes on your smartphone or from printed materials using your webcam. Simply hold the QR code image in front of your camera and if the code has been read properly, you will hear a beep sound. The QRreader add-on is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. NOTE: QRreader might not work with versions of Adobe AIR older than 3.0. If you are experiencing issues, uninstall Adobe Air >3.0 and install 3.0 instead, which can be downloaded by clicking on this link . Requirements:
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Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping you get to the end of that awkward first draft. Your Complete Writing Studio Writing a novel, research paper, script or any long-form text involves more than hammering away at the keys until you reach the end. Collecting research, ordering fragmented ideas, shuffling index cards in search of that elusive structure - most writing software is fired up only after much of the hard work is done. Enter Scrivener: a word processor and project management tool that stays with you from that first, unformed idea all the way through to the final draft. Outline and structure your ideas, take notes, view research alongside your writing and compose the constituent pieces of your text in isolation or in context.
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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
New Technique Turns Viruses Into Useful Tools
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.By EDW Lynch on October 14, 2011 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.
New Software System for Realistically Adding Objects Into Photos
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
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.Codecademy Lands $2.5 Million From Investors
Codeacademy is an online tool designed to give computer science newbies a crash course in the basics. 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.”The Misconception : You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate. The Truth : You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm. Benjamin Franklin knew how to deal with haters.
The Benjamin Franklin Effect
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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