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– A new study by the Pew Research Center found that that Blacks and Latinos are among the biggest users of mobile web technology, and that low-income communities are among its fastest adopters.

– 10 Beach Books For Smarty Pants Readers

– If you have already seen Inception, you might appreciate this… (spoiler Alert):
An Illustrated Guide To The 5 Levels Of Inception.

– The Book Inscriptions Project is interesting.

– Wow:  Amazon Now Selling More Ebooks than Print

– Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month

– Everyone has been checking out who I Write Like, which lead to The iTunes Top 10 Singles And The Writers They Sound Like , and then, A Q&A with the Creator of “I Write Like”: “The Algorithm is Not a Rocket Science”.

– Swan dive into the best reading experience of your life at the library

– Does the Old Spice Guy’s success mark the end of racism in America? What’s your take on this?

– Will reading be an athletic activity 40 years from now? How will the technological advancements affect writers and the creative process?

– Mac Cosmetics issues an apology and pledges to donate proceeds from the sales of their new Juarez inspired line after protests about the choice of names and the gaucheness of a makeup line inspired by a town where over 5,000 (speculated) women’s violent murders and rapes have gone unsolved. They have stated they will also change the names of the products in the line.

– Some great posts from Socialogical Images: Latinos’ Attitudes about Women’s Roles, and Some Methodological Issues, and Women and their Maids: A Photographic Levelling

– Loving this song:

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