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#PhillyFive What We're Reading: April 28, 2015

Stories from around that web that we're reading this morning. Something for everyone.

Stories from around that web that we're reading this morning. Something for everyone.

1. Slate sits in on a University of Pennsylvania English professor's Internet infamous "Wasting Time on the Internet" class.

2. NewsWorks hosted a forum about Philadelphia's changing neighborhoods. Here's how people described theirs, in six words or fewer.

3. Riders of Philly's new bike-share system are sometimes arriving at stations and finding no bicycles available, or encountering docks too full to return a bike. PlanPhilly has the details on how Indego rebalances the bike supply.

4. The Democratic National Convention is touting its diversity efforts in the planning for next year's convention in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Business Journal reports. The group says it's hired a leader for diversity outreach and selected minority- and LGBT-owned businesses as housing providers.

5. Local illustrator Melissa McFeeters is creating cool papercut illustrations daily in her #100daysofpapercutz project (part of the social media challenge #The100DayProject). City Paper chats with McFeeters about her art, which you can see on her Instagram.