-DNSPod-DNS-__,DNS Brain Pickings - Part 30 By: Maria Popova A vibrant dance across the global spectrum of the popular imagination. “Legendary lands … have only one characteristic in common: whether they depend on ancient legends whose origins are lost in the mists of time or whether they are an effect of a modern invention, they have created flows of belief,” Umberto Eco wrote in his illustrated meditation on imaginary places. But as much as fictional lands might hold enduring allure, what captivates our shared imagination even more are the fictional and mythic creatures of our cultural folklore, both ancient and modern. That’s precisely what writer Davide Cali and illustrator Gabriela Giandelli explore in Monsters and Legends (public library) — a vibrant and whimsical volume from independent British children’s book press Flying Eye Books, which also gave us the illustrated chronicle of Shackleton’s historic expedition. The Mapiguari The Dragon In every culture, there is a creature resembling a Dragon. Gustave The Mokele-Mbembe
Quels outils pour faire efficacement de la veille sur le web ? Parmi vos compétences, celle de se tenir informé de ce qui se passe dans votre domaine est indispensable. Mais un problème de taille se pose alors : comment rentabiliser le temps passé à chercher ces informations ? Internet est vaste, le web en est une fenêtre, mais comme toute fenêtre, elle est limitée. Et vous êtes également limité ! C’est la raison d’être de plusieurs outils automatisant cette recherche. Alerti est l’une des plate-forme qui a de l’avenir en tant que réel réseau de veille. Simple conseil avec Alerti : comportez vous comme si vous étiez sur un moteur de recherche classique, puis affinez afin d’atterrir sur vos requêtes. Google Alert est LA référence du système de veille gratuite. Twitter reste à mon sens l’outil le plus pertinent pour faire de la veille qualifiée. Le magazine Management propose dans son numéro d’octobre 2011 d’autres outils de veille : Giga Alert, Social Mention Alert et Favebot. Pourquoi je fais de la veille ? Et vous, quels outils utilisez-vous ?
TechCrunch Mednafen - Multi-system Emulator Six basic tenets of Dow Theory 1. The market has three movements (1) The "main movement", primary movement or major trend may last from less than a year to several years. 2. Dow Theory asserts that major market trends are composed of three phases: an accumulation phase, a public participation phase, and a distribution phase. 3. Stock prices quickly incorporate new information as soon as it becomes available. 4. In Dow's time, the US was a growing industrial power. 5. Dow believed that volume confirmed price trends. 6. Dow believed that trends existed despite "market noise".
Marketplace from American Public Media: Business, The Economy, Personal Finance, Wall Street and World News Google Book Downloader - Download any book from books.google.com Your dashboard on Wakoopa How Contactually Keeps Up With Competitors Using Zapier | Zapier Blog | Zapier - Sync the Web This following is a guest post by Tony Cappaert. Tony is the Co-Founder at Contactually, a personal assistant that helps you stay connected with your top contacts. He leads up all marketing and business development for Contactually, and was previous a PM on the adCenter team at Microsoft. He loves hiking, camping, and drinking great beer. We love Hipchat. When we first started our company last fall we were a distributed team and were working on the product part-time. However, after using Hipchat for a few weeks as solely a chat client, we stumbled across their API. Right away we started integrating with a host of other services: Github, Pivotal Tracker, Stripe, and our own app. We'd turned Hipchat from a simple chat client to a livestream of everything going on with our company, updating 24/7. That's when we discovered Zapier. I don't remember how we originally discovered Zapier, but as soon as we found it the light bulb went off in my head. Thanks Zapier!