39 Blogging Tools to Help You Work Faster & Write Better
When you’re finding amazing content to share on social media—the kind of thing that grabs attention and gets people to click, share, and comment—one of the most valuable, most original places to turn is your own blog and the content you personally create. So the questions become: How to create amazing content, how to put together blogposts strategically and efficiently, and how to get your content out to the masses. Writing tips are a good place to start. And to supplement the words you use to build your blogposts, I’ve found a huge number of blogging tools that help with everything from coming up with ideas to spread the content far and wide. Do you have a favorite blogging tool? The Huge List of 39 Blogging Tools Tools to brainstorm blogging ideas 1. The crowdsourced answer website can help lead you to the types of questions that real people are asking, questions that you can answer in-depth with a blogpost. 2. 3. 4. 5. HubSpot’s title maker works similarly to Portent’s. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Seth's Blog: Paperback Kindle
Steve Jobs reports today that Apple is selling an iPad every three seconds. This is a pretty urgent moment for my friends on the Kindle team, so here are some bonus thoughts on pricing, business models and competition: 1. The paperback Kindle. 2. 3. Sign up to get a Kindle book of your choice every month for 12 months and get a free Kindle. 4. The only way to get authors and publishers to embrace this device is to sell 20,000,000 of them. I saw a two-year old kid (in diapers, in a stroller), using an iPod Touch today.
Web Starter Kit — Web Fundamentals
Download Web Starter Kit (beta) What is Web Starter Kit? Web Starter Kit is an opinionated boilerplate for web development. Tools for building a great experience across many devices and performance oriented. Helping you to stay productive following the best practices outlined in Google's Web Fundamentals. Features Quickstart Download the kit or clone the repository and build on what is included in the app directory. There are two HTML starting points, from which you can choose: index.html - the default starting point, containing Material Design layout.basic.html - no layout, but still includes our minimal mobile best-practices Be sure to look over the installation docs to verify your environment is prepared to run WSK. Web Performance Web Starter Kit strives to give you a high performance starting point out of the box. Browser Support At present, we officially aim to support the last two versions of the following browsers: ChromeEdgeFirefoxSafariOperaInternet Explorer 9+ Troubleshooting Learn More
Female Teachers’ Math Anxiety Negatively Affects Female Students
For a long time it was believed that males have better spatial and numerical abilities resulting in their greater aptitude for mathematics compared to females. But research in cognitive development of human infants and children has failed to support these claims. Instead, scientists now have enough evidence to conclude that the same set of biologically based cognitive capacities is responsible for mathematical and scientific reasoning in both the sexes. Math anxiety is the unpleasant emotional response to mathematics and to the prospect of performing math related skills. So why are these results important? Undoubtedly, apart from their current teachers’ anxieties, many other reasons, such as, parents, peers, and siblings who either do or do not model traditional academic gender roles may play an important part in shaping girls’ gender ability beliefs and their math achievement more generally. Training and education can easily reduce math anxiety. References
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E-Book Readers Bomb on College Campuses
(Corrects Amazon statement in 7th paragraph.) Hopes were high last fall when the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle DX was distributed to a group of students at seven universities around the country in a classroom pilot program for the electronic reader. With students able to download class materials and textbooks easily onto the slender 10.2-ounce device, many thought the era of carrying heavy textbooks would soon be over. Just a few months later, their hopes were dashed, as students reported that the Kindle was a poor replacement for a textbook, hard to use in the classroom, and difficult to navigate. "It's an amazing device for recreational reading, but it's not quite ready for prime time in higher education," says Daniel Turner, associate dean of the masters and executive education programs at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business (Foster Full-Time MBA Profile), one of the schools that participated in the pilot. Not for Case Studies "A Device That Doesn't Exist Yet"
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Balkanizing the Web
Creeping Balkanization is the internet’s worst enemy. As worldwide literacy grows exponentially, for the web, such expansion results in increasing pressure from corporate interests and regulatory nationalisms. Rising from its arcane beginnings as a DARPA research project, the net has become a symbol of borderless communication between individuals and of unlimited access to knowledge. Unfortunately, the net is about to become a heavily controlled environment, serving two classes of citizens: a dominant class that sets the rules (technological, legal and commercial) and the underclass of citizens and consumers. Consider these two macro trends: The first one stems from the world’s linguistic evolution. Beyond that, only the Spanish group (7.8% of the internet population) and the Japanese (5.3%) are above the 5% threshold. The second trend involves the telecommunication infrastructure. Mobile internet? #1 Technological control. #2 Commercial control. #3 Regulatory control. C’mon guys.
