Education & Technology

• Education Startup Udacity Bets It Can Fill The Need For More Data Scientists With New Online Degree Program | TechCrunch
• Leap Motion releases Free Form, an app that lets human hands sculpt digital clay | Engadget

• And The Word Of The Year Is… “selfie” | FastCompany
• Google And Microsoft Put Differences Aside To Fight Child Porn | ReadWrite
• ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and Reuters Blocked in China | Mashable
• 65% of U.S. Social Media Users Get News on Just One Social Network | Mashable
• Russian internet titan Mail.ru stakes claim in US with email and chat apps, mobile games | Engadget
• Behold! The First Universal Game Controller for the iPhone | WIRED
• Raspberry Pi Vaults Past 2 Million Sold Mark | readwrite
• Google: We’re bombarded by gov’t requests on user data | CNET

Librarianship

Are Digital Libraries A ‘Winner-Takes-All’ Market? OverDrive Hopes So | Forbes
“Schools and libraries in all forms are transitioning their spends from providing physical items that are being stored on shelves and branches to digital items — the fastest portion of their growth,” said Steve Potash  in a recent interview. Potash is President and CEO of OverDrive, the Cleveland-based provider of technology for managing and distributing digital content for lending libraries.

Gross: Fifty Shades of Grey goes viral – literally | theguardian
Library copies of the bestselling sadomasochistic romance were found to carry traces of herpes and cocaine.

• Internet Archive Fire Shows Vulnerability Of The World’s Online Memory | techdirt
• Architects Bjarke Ingels Group win competition to build a Museum of the Human Body near Montpellier | Gizmodo
• “E-Books in Libraries, 2013 Has Been a Year of Small Victories and Bigger Battles” | LJ InfoDocket
• Partial u-turn for Moray on library closures | The Bookseller