1. Letting your kids play in the social media sandbox (Nick Bilton / New York Times)
2. White House names DJ Patil as the first US Chief Data Scientist (Jessi Hempel / Wired)
3. What user-created content for virtual reality will look like (Signe Brewster / Gigaom)
4. YouTube content chief says growth accelerating despite increased competition from Facebook (Ina Fried / Re/code) [VID]
5. Coming soon: Celebrity web networks from the media company Whalerock (Brooks Barnes / New York Times)
6. How can news orgs better use games and quizzes? (Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab)