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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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