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。

关于gifs

GIF之所以流行，并不仅仅是因为它让分享简短、搞笑的视频片段变得无比简单——这种文件格式的历史和成功可以追溯到马克·安德烈森（Marc Andreessen）90年代初在Mosaic上的工作。

热情：西门子-GIF：技术史

From a technical standpoint, the success of the lowly GIF is a mystery. Both as an image format and as a video/animation format, it’s vastly inferior to the alternatives. It only supports 256 colors; its compression is inefficient; it doesn’t support sound; the last specification was published more than twenty years ago. Yet it’s still thriving.

论节制

ASCII艺术、模因和愤怒漫画很好笑，但它们对社区有好处吗？

StackExchange:Jeff Atwood——人气的问题

We know that closing the cookie jar is painful. We feel your pain. Nobody likes having their fun taken away. But it’s too addictive and too easy, and in the absence of any moderation, the community would do nothing but add and upvote the easy, fun stuff.

恢复时

杰伊·柯克（Jay Kirk）写了一篇关于帮助烧伤患者应对疼痛的奇特有效的“精神病拱廊”的文章。

问：杰伊柯克-燃烧的人

The data showed that in terms of reducing pain, anxiety about pain, and time spent thinking about pain, playing Nintendo Mario Kart compared poorly to SpiderWorld. The reason VR was so much more effective than a regular video game came down to a quality called "presence"—that sense of being immersed inside an artificial world.

在分开的网上

像Facebook、Amazon和Google这样的科技巨头真的应该争相创建自己的迷你互联网吗？

LRB博客：Daniel Soar-万维网

In desiring so aggressively to create ‘one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google’, Google, like every other technology company, is now emulating Apple.

在本地

暂且不提风投融资数百万美元的热门新应用，想想智能**的低成本发布和传播如何改变当地市场和新闻。《哥伦比亚新闻评论》（Columbia Journali** Review）深入研究了德克萨斯州高中足球报道的变化，以及比以往任何时候都更加丰富的数据。

哥伦比亚新闻评论：杰克·巴特塞尔-周五晚

The most aggressive suitor of that audience, for the moment, is The Dallas Morning News, which last fall launched a real-time scoring project that featured live play-by-play coverage of about fifty games a week. The initiative, which includes a $1.99 app for the iPhone and Android, is believed to be the first of its kind for high school sports. "It’s taking local to another level," says Mark Francescutti, the News’s senior online managing editor of sports

在facebook上

亚历克西斯•马德里加尔（Alexis Madrigal）在谈到本周Facebook IPO消息时指出，该公司未来的一个重要数据是：每个月活跃用户的收入较低。

大西洋报：亚历克西斯·马德里加尔——以下是Facebook IPO申请中的重要数字

So, if tripling the size of the social network to 3,000,000,000 users is not going to be enough to justify its valuation with its current revenue per user, there is only one strategic direction for Facebook to go. It needs to generate more revenue per user. A lot more.

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