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What do you use your second screen for?

The most common [second screen activities] were: reading email while watching TV/video content (63%); using applications or browsing the internet to kill time (56%); using apps or browsing the internet to find out more information (49%); and using social forums at the same time as watching TV/video content (40%). 

Tumblr loved the MTV Video Music Awards last night! Data is still coming in from the event, but preliminary numbers show that more than 686,000 people generated 1.3 million posts and 1.1 million likes on Tumblr on Sunday. That’s huge.

If you watched the show, it won’t shock you that the most talked-about musical group was One Direction (GIF above from morepayne), and the most talked-about performance was Miley Cyrus. Lady Gaga and 'N Sync were also very popular.

The top post so far is this picture of Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke, and Billy Ray Cyrus from gamebrah, with more than 40k reblogs and 30k likes. Check out its incredible reblog tree - more than half its reblogs were nine or more degrees removed from the original post. It got 148 reblogs directly from followers, and another 40,300 from the rest of Tumblr. That’s some serious amplification! 

The World Map of Social Networks created by Vincenza Cosenza has been updated for June 2013.

It shows Facebook is now the dominant social network in 127 out of 137 countries. No surprises there then!

Westminster by James Cooper

“Using a tripod I wanted to capture the light trails left by buses on Westminster bridge with the iconic Big Ben in the background. I managed to get a clear shot with no other traffic except the bus passing.”

View more of James’ photography.

Image copyright James Cooper and used with permission.

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George Steinmetz shot a series of aerial photographs of the Jersey Shore shortly after Hurricane Sandy, and revisited the area this month. Compare images from November and from July in our interactive feature: http://nyr.kr/17B3viM

See it full-sized here.