#toccon

Nhiều người cảm thấy khó chịu khi thấy những sợi tóc ngắn mọc lởm chởm quanh vùng trán, đặc biệt khi buộc tóc hoặc tạo kiểu. Tuy nhiên, đây không phải lúc nào cũng là dấu hiệu xấu. Trong nhiều trường hợp, tóc con xuất hiện là kết quả của quá trình tóc gãy rụng và mọc lại tự nhiên.

Ngoài chu kỳ phát triển của tóc, một số thói quen như buộc tóc quá chặt, thường xuyên sấy nóng hoặc tạo kiểu bằng nhiệt cũng có thể khiến tóc dễ gãy và làm phần tóc mới mọc trở nên rõ rệt hơn. Bên cạnh đó, yếu tố di truyền, hormone và chế độ dinh dưỡng cũng có thể ảnh hưởng đến sự phát triển của tóc.

Để phần tóc ngắn quanh trán trông gọn gàng hơn, bạn có thể thay đổi ngôi tóc, sử dụng một lượng nhỏ gel hoặc keo giữ nếp, đồng thời hạn chế tác động nhiệt lên tóc. Việc massage da đầu, uống đủ nước và bổ sung các dưỡng chất cần thiết cũng góp phần giúp mái tóc phát triển khỏe mạnh hơn.

Nếu bạn muốn tìm hiểu chi tiết về nguyên nhân cũng như các cách chăm sóc hiệu quả, có thể tham khảo bài viết về tóc con để có thêm thông tin hữu ích.

A wee update about The Holocene. (Hint: full steam ahead!)

The Tools of Change for Publishing Startup Showcase final competition was yesterday afternoon. My business partners spent a fevered ninety minutes talking to a non-stop stream of curious people who wanted to know what The Holoceneis all about. At the end…

We aren't one of the three winners of the Tools of Change for Publishing Startup Showcase. *sadface*

But we're turning our frown upside down, and here's why.

First. The winners rock.

Second. I think we might have been the newest company to toss our hat in the ring. We were so new when we submitted our application that we hadn't chosen a name for our company yet, and so we had to decide on one right quick.

That said, we knew exactly what it is we want to do. That's why we applied. Name or no name, we were onto something and we knew it. So we chose a name and we filled out the form.

And we made it to the finals. The finals!

During the couple months that passed between our application and the Startup Showcase that took place at the conference in New York yesterday, we took that good idea and we ran with it.

We fleshed out a clear editorial mission and identified the audience we want to reach. We drew wireframes that outline exactly what we want our platform to do. We're well on our way to figuring out the back-end functionality we need. We're building a community of readers and contributors.

And though we did all of this pretty quickly, we did it right. We did it quickly, but we didn't rush. We did it quickly, but we didn't kill ourselves to get it done.

We've learned that the chemistry that brought us together is the real deal. We genuinely like each other. We have a tremendous amount of fun together. We respect each other and the skills and experience each of us brings to the project.

So, yeah. We didn't win. Know who won? For one, a company that brings books to people in areas so remote they have little to no access to books otherwise. Dude. We had no chance against that. And I voted for them because of what they do. I'm glad they won.

And we're glad we participated. We're glad we used this competition as an excuse to make lots of important decisions right out of the gate instead of gazing skyward and getting lost in fantasies. We're glad the competition forced us to focus. We're glad for the exposure we've earned and the conversations we've only just begun to have.

We most enthusiastically congratulate the three winning companies, and wish all the participants the best of luck.

Welch - whether you are a big company or a small company - you need a technology partner. Creating from ground up a lot harder #toccon

February 14, 2013

This tweet comes to you from the Tools of Change for Publishing conference (stream it here), going on right now here in New York. I wasn’t able to attend, but I’m following sessions via my trusted sources. An emerging theme (if you can even call it that; it’s a reality!) is the need for powerful backends, by which I mean technology partners that can help publishers expand the reach of books, regardless of the “audience.” This could be a Bibliocommons (a 3M partner), a PressBooks, a Bowker, or an independent database developer.

What would happen, for instance, if librarian-created MARC records were used in place of publishers’ ONIX feeds on retail sites and in vendor ebook catalogs like 3M’s? Why do we assume that the MARC level of detail is suitable only for the library space when a dearth of book detail is hindering online discovery?