我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

论中国

本周《****》的两篇重要文章探讨了苹果的供应链，并指出了危险的劳动条件，以质疑消费电子行业对中国**商的依赖。正如一位现任匿名苹果高管所说，“现在，消费者更关心的是一部新iPhone，而不是中国的工作条件。”

《****》：查尔斯·杜希格和大卫·巴博萨——在中国，人力成本是建立在iPad上的

"You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can reinvent the product every year, and make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards," said a current Apple executive.

查尔斯·杜希格和基思·布拉德谢尔——美国是如何在iPhone上失利的

"Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S. now," said Jared Bernstein, who until last year was an economic adviser to the White House. "If it’s the pinnacle of capitali**, we should be worried."

论出版

布拉德·斯通讲述了拉里·基什鲍姆（Larry Kirshbaum）从纽约出版社神圣的大厅到亚马逊新出版部门负责人的历程，以及数字世界和印刷世界之间日益紧张的关系。

商业周刊：布拉德斯通-亚马逊的**

Then last March, Random House, the biggest book publisher in the U.S., announced that it too would sell e-books using agency pricing. Amazon could no longer run the best play out of its playbook—slash prices and sustain losses in the short term to gain market share over the long term. Sure enough, with no stark price disadvantage, the Nook e-reader store and Apple’s iBookstore for the iPad started to gain market share. "For the first time, a level playing field was going to get forced on Amazon…"

论清洁技术的失败

2009年至2011年间，**和风投在清洁技术领域投入了445亿美元，Wired利用太阳能电池**商Solyndra的失败（奥巴马在2010年的工厂访问中称之为“经济增长引擎”）来解释清洁技术泡沫是如何破灭的。

连线：朱丽叶·艾尔佩林——为什么清洁技术的繁荣破灭了

What a lot of them didn’t bargain for, and, frankly, didn’t really understand," he says, "is that it’s almost never going to be five guys in a garage. You need a heck of a lot of money to prove that you can do your technology at scale."

在奇怪的互联网上

马克斯·里德简介专家“怪异的互联网”馆长凯蒂·诺托普洛斯（Katie Notopoulos）总是发现一些奇怪的事情，比如推特上说，“哭着睡觉是因为我看不懂这个《失乐园》的摘要，因为维基百科被黑了。-.-".

马克斯·里德-怪异的互联网：与“在线好奇收藏家”凯蒂·诺托普洛斯的对话

The patterns that Katie curates, whether for a few hours on her Twitter, or in a more extensive and permanent way on one of her many blogs, tend to highlight the special way that the internet makes our most serious and meaningful desires and expressi*** come across as petty and absurd.

唯利是图的技术人员

阿德里安陈介绍了马丁，一个黑帽网络声誉经理的“高净值个人”和自称“**军黑客”谁是直接从威廉吉布森小说。

加奎尔：阿德里安陈-唯利是图的技术谁为毒贩和嫉妒情人的麻烦

Standing on the sidewalk, Martin explained the snoop-resistant system he had devised: a makeshift private cell phone network built around prepaid phones, dozens of SIM cards and plastic pill organizers—the kind seniors use to keep their meds in order.

干草叉上

理查德·贝克讲述了瑞安·施赖伯的音乐网站Pitchfork如何利用互联网在21世纪对音乐和炒作的影响以及该网站对音乐消费的影响。

n+1:Richard Beck-Pitchfork，1995年至今

By keeping user-generated comments off the site, Pitchfork has behaved more like a magazine than the magazines have. The only major modification Schreiber made to the print template—putting reviews, not interviews or features, at the center—was an ingenious adaptation to the dynamics of internet buzz: interviews may sell the rock and roll lifestyle, but reviews are what blogs will link to and argue about.

关于“超级metroid”

即使你不是超级都市迷，雨果·比尔（Hugo Bille）对超级任天堂经典游戏的分析也表明，游戏设计师们能够很好地管理玩家对游戏世界的心理形象。

伽玛索特拉：雨果比尔-超级都市的看不见的手

Since the player never completely leaves an area behind and forgets about it, the game world c***tantly expands in the mind of the player. By never completely exhausting an area before moving on to the next, Metroidvanias promise us that if we remember and acquaint ourselves with the game world, it will not go unrewarded.

在facebook订阅上

我们自己的劳拉·琼（Laura June）捕捉到了Facebook最近订阅功能的最新状态：“你是人类并不意味着你不是垃圾邮件。”

罗梅内斯科：吉姆·罗梅内斯科——Facebook状态更新实验

But I know too that the majority of my 15,000-plus subscribers — including Socrat Jim Jones P ("Engineer at My Sweet Factory") — really have no interest in U.S. media. These Facebook Subscribe numbers that are being thrown around are bogus.

论群体思维

这是本月早些时候的一篇文章，但不要错过苏珊·凯恩关于合作崇拜和被低估的孤独重要性的文章。

《****》：苏珊·凯恩——新群体思维的兴起

Culturally, we’re often so dazzled by chari**a that we overlook the quiet part of the creative process. C***ider Apple. In the wake of Steve Jobs’s death, we’ve seen a profusion of myths about the company’s success. Most focus on Mr. Jobs’s supernatural magneti** and tend to ignore the other crucial figure in Apple’s creation: a kindly, introverted engineering wizard, Steve Wozniak, who toiled alone on a beloved invention, the personal computer.

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