How To Get Published: Jane Friedman Outlines The Options (Infographic) | Huffington Post Books.
Review of Internet of Things Device Twine | Wired.com
With the powers that be continuing to expand their use of sensors to monitor our every action as we move about in the world, it’s nice to encounter a product that lets us do the same inside our own homes.Â
Twine is an inexpensive, customizable little box that can be rigged to monitor your home for various changes or actions, and alert you when they happen. It debuted in 2011 as a Kickstarter project, and became a fully funded reality in early 2012. For the full article see Review: Twine by Supermechanical | Wired.com.
How to Create a Social Media Posting Hub with HootSuite | OEDB.org
Instead of visiting every social network every day and posting separate status updates, why not set up a social media hub where you can access your customized dashboard and monitor and post to them all at once?
via How to Create a Social Media Posting Hub with HootSuite | OEDB.org
People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests | Huffington Post
Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline. In fact, it indicates that Westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era.
Tapping M2M: The Internet of Things | ZDNet – TechRepublic
Tapping M2M: The Internet of Things | ZDNet – TechRepublic
A resource with a series of articles about M2M communication aka the Internet of Things.
View All Unregistered Wikipedia Edits in Real Time | Co.Create
The Wikipedia Recent Changes Map, shows where every unregistered user is editing from in real time. You can watch the titles of Wikipedia entries that have just been altered on a map of the world, or you can watch a quickly moving list of items scroll by. Via View All Unregistered Wikipedia Edits in Real Time | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce.
A Web Series For Kids Aims To Be The “Elmo for Engineering” | Co.Design
It’s hard to beat classic episodes of Sesame Street for timeless, near-universal educational appeal, but engineer and Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried still saw an unmet need in the educational-video space. “We looked around and didn’t see an ‘Elmo for engineering’ or a kid’s show that celebrated science and engineering,” she tells Co.Design. “Every kid seems to have a cell phone or a tablet, but they know more about SpongeBob than how a LED works on the device or TV they’re watching, and we wanted to change that.” So she and her team at Adafruit created Circuit Playground, a Youtube series that combines chirpy puppets with hackery know-how via A Web Series For Kids Aims To Be The “Elmo for Engineering” | Co.Design: business + innovation + design.
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Amazon Launches Fan Fiction Platform | PopWatch | EW.com
Amazon is readying the launch of a new publishing platform called Kindle Worlds where writers will be able to publish and earn royalties from their fanfiction.
For now, fanfic writers are limited to submitting stories about only three TV shows: ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, the CW’s Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl, which aired its series finale on the CW last December. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses for those three properties (all owned by Warner Bros.), though it expects to announce more licenses soon.
Most stories on the publishing platform will be priced between $0.99 and $3.99. More details about submission rules and royalty rates are on Amazon.com. Via ‘Vampire Diaries’ among shows licensed for Amazon fan fic platform | PopWatch | EW.com.
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