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This Video Game Could Revolutionize Publishing—and Reading | The Atlantic

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When the Best Books of 2013 are listed, the most important may not make the cut. Thats because the most exciting literary innovation of the year is not a book at all, but a video game for iPad and iPhone. Device 6 is a metaphysical thriller in which the world is made almost entirely from words. Playing it is like reading a book—except, in this book, the words veer off in unexpected directions, rather than progressing in orderly fashion down the page. When Anna, the game’s protagonist, turns a corner in the narrative, the text does too, swerving off to one side at a right angle, forcing the player to rotate the screen.

More in this story about other innovative gaming apps that have a literary angle. Read: This Video Game Could Revolutionize Publishing—and Reading | Rowland Manthorpe | The Atlantic.

Bosses May Use Social Media to Discriminate | WSJ.com

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Many companies regularly look up job applicants online as part of the hiring process. A new study suggests they may also use what they find to discriminate.

The study, a Carnegie Mellon University experiment involving dummy résumés and social-media profiles, found that between 10% and a third of U.S. firms searched social networks for job applicants’ information early in the hiring process. In those cases, candidates whose public Facebook profiles indicated they were Muslim were less likely to be called for interviews than Christian applicants. The difference was particularly pronounced in parts of the country where more people identify themselves as conservative. In those places, Christian applicants got callbacks 17% of the time, compared with about 2% for Muslims.

The same experiment, conducted from February to July of this year, found that online disclosures about job candidates’ sexuality had no detectable impact on employers’ early interest.

The research is the latest example of how people’s digital trails can have far-reaching and unintended effects, particularly in the job market.

Read the rest of the story: Bosses May Use Social Media to Discriminate | WSJ.com.

Tech Trends 2013: Elements of post digital | Deloitte United States

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The Beginner’s Guide to Spotify | Mashable

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Digital music might not have the same allure as sitting down to listen to a record on your turntable, but what it lacks in atmosphere, it makes up for in convenience — especially when you aren’t home with your collection.

It’s been five years since Spotify publicly launched and shifted the music industry’s focus toward streaming as a way to combat illegal downloading. While the streaming business model is far from perfect, even the most casual music fan should test out streaming while it’s still growing.

If you’re just dipping your toe into the stream, follow our beginner’s guide and soon you’ll be listening to Spotify’s massive library without the worry of losing precious hard drive space.

Macro topics:

  • Signing Up
  • Organizing Your Music
  • Sharing and Discovering Tunes

Read: The Beginner’s Guide to Spotify | Mashable

What Teens, Screens and Digitally Divided Attention Spans Mean for Learning [Infographic] | The LAMP

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What Teens, Screens and Digitally Divided Attention Spans Mean for Learning

What Teens, Screens and Digitally Divided Attention Spans Mean for Learning [Infographic] | The LAMP

Books, libraries, and the changing digital landscape | Pew Research Center

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How libraries are dealing with the changing technological environment, as well as the larger context of Americans’ reading and library habits, and what they expect from libraries in the future.

Study: What You Would Be Doing If You Spent Less Time Online | The Atlantic

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Most of us have heard our parents or grandparents complain that the digital age has corrupted the youth and taken them away from doing “better things.” Whether or not this is an accurate assessment, no one had ever really figured out how much our computer time cuts into other activities—at least not until now. New research from Scott Wallsten, an economist at the Technology Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., attempts to show exactly what Americans are missing out on because they’re glued to their computer screens.

Wallsten limits his study to “online leisure,” or time spent online doing things like combing social networks, browsing for non-work purposes, instant messaging, etc. (Online games—even though they can take up a lot of leisure time—are excluded because of the way the data Wallsten used are collected by the US Census Bureau. Despite the data’s shortcomings, Wallsten finds that online leisure time still crowds out other activities.)

See the charts and read more: Study: What You Would Be Doing If You Spent Less Time Online – Simone Foxman | The Atlantic.

digital collections – if you build them will anyone visit | Frederick Zarndt

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8 Apps to Make You a Better Reader | Mashable

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How many books did you read last year? If your answer is more than one, congratulations: you’re more well-read than about 25% of Americans over age 16, according to a 2012 Pew Internet survey.

Ironically, as we become more surrounded by words in the digital age, less of us are finding time to actually read them. The good news is that your smartphone or tablet can help.

Trying to stray from the obvious reading apps, like e-readers, we’ve gathered eight excellent apps that’ll help you improve your reading ability and become a better literary citizen, while simultaneously boosting your brain function.

Whether you’d like to read more, faster or some combination of the two, these apps will light your path to wisdom.

Includes overviews of the following apps:

  1. Instapaper
  2. Syllable
  3. Dictionary.com
  4. Readmill
  5. Goodreads
  6. Longform app for iPad
  7. Lumosity
  8. Audible

Read: 8 Apps to Make You a Better Reader | Mashable.

30 Marketing Statistics You Shouldn’t Miss [Infographic] | Marketing Technology Blog

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Optimind has put together this snapshot of 30 digital marketing statistics to keep in mind with your online marketing and ecommerce presence.

30 Digital Marketing Stats

via 30 Marketing Statistics You Shouldn’t Miss [Infographic] | Marketing Technology Blog