Finding myself in China over the holidays has severely limited my blogging options.  With all the restrictions to such sites as Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, along with Internet connection slower than a snail, makes it difficult indeed to blog.  Therefore I have decided to take few days off while enjoying the hospitality of my in-laws.

Interestingly there are few websites dedicated to help us learn new skills as the Internet is mostly populated by articles and wikis rather than tools that utilize the web to teach us. With all the studies out there on how we best adopt new knowledge, specialized websites could greatly increase our ability to learn from the comfort of our homes.

It seems that every day there is a new Microblogging service popping up with slight variations to all the others. I decided to look at three of them; Tumblr, Posterous and TypePad.