Samuel Pepys bloggeth, electronics: fast and flexible, Bigelow space-bingo, underwater hotel…

• 1 – Tips on Promoting Your Author Blog
  DLE explains it all.
  (tags: tricks tips publishing books internet marketing promotion blog blogger writer author)
• 2 – Pepys’ Diary
  Samuel Pepys doth blog, verily! (Cheers, Brian.)
  (tags: writers revolution London UK politics narrative humour classic history autobiography blogging blog diary Pepys Samuel)
• 3 – Crystal printing promises flexible electronics
  “The new “block printing” technique can grow individual crystals on top of a surface previously patterned with metal electrodes. This provides a cheaper and simpler way to create circuitry on a surface…”
  (tags: circuitry substrate flexible printing lithography crystal electronics technology science)
• 4 – World’s Fastest Transistor Approaches Goal Of Terahertz Device
  “With a frequency of 845 gigahertz, their latest device is approximately 300 gigahertz faster than transistors built by other research groups, and approaches the goal of a terahertz device.”
  (tags: singularity computing Law Moore’s terahertz speed research transistor electronics technology science)
• 5 – Gartner: Blogging to Peak in 2007
  “One of the research company’s top 10 predictions for 2007 is that the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide. The reason: Most people who would ever dabble with Web journals already have.”
  (tags: futurism responsibility social business peak prediction study internet blogging blogs)
• 6 – Ocean pumps ‘could cut carbon dioxide’
  “Philip Kithil says his pump device could reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by almost one third, with the same technology also being used to increase fish stocks and prevent hurricanes.” Interesting.
  (tags: change climate pump plankton sequestration carbon ecology environment ocean seas)
• 7 – Earth from Space | Smithsonian Institution
  “See our amazing planet from the perspective of an orbiting satellite [...] this website complements the national traveling exhibition, which may be coming to a city near you!” Well, not near *me*, but nice pix anyway.
  (tags: space world photos satellite NASA images Earth astronomy)
• 8 – Real-World Passwords
  “How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts?” Looks like MySpazz users are far more security-savvy than my work colleagues…
  (tags: data analysis MySpace phishing hacking passwords security internet)
• 9 – Popularity Contest
  “Overall, the number of social networks evolving into games is on the rise. “Any site with a digital incentive system–like currency, avatars and control over the environment–is a game,” says Moiz.”
  (tags: business marketing contest popularity game sites internet networking social)
• 10 – Bigelow to Launch Space Colony, Bingo Game
  “Genesis II will carry a “Biobox” – a three-chamber contraption that houses roaches, scorpions, as well as ants [...] Additionally, a high-roller innovation is being flown…Genesis II will tote along a “space bingo” game.” Follow that.
  (tags: weird gambling machine bingo research colony ant insect orbit space inflatable habitat orbital Airspace Bigelow)
• 11 – 1,200 Square Feet Under the Sea
  “If all goes well with construction, the Poseidon Mystery Island will soon be submerged in 40 feet of water in a 5,000-acre coral lagoon near the coast of a narrow, 225-acre isle located in northeastern Fiji.” Awesome!
  (tags: luxury vacation holiday Fiji reef coral underwater resort hotel Island Mystery Poseidon)