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。

首先，每周专栏终于有了一个RSS提要，现在来看一个没有愚人节笑话的列表：

论摄影

马特·皮尔斯（mattpearce）与摄影及其数码增强作斗争。

最新调查：马特·皮尔斯-要么射**，要么死

I already know that I will likely never pay someone to take a photo for me again, just as the arrival of journalist – replacing iPhones and free downloads of Hipstamatic and Instagram mean that I, too, am ever less likely to get paid. The work of photography once belonged exclusively to laborers. Now it belongs to everybody, it belongs to me, and someday I will put my father out of business forever because of it.

关于小故事

我被作家特朱·科尔的小说《用推特写尼日利亚拉各斯的“小”新闻故事》迷住了，这是他从法语“fait divers”（“小命运”，或字面上的“事件”）中衍生出来的一种做法。昨天，他宣布，在国会图书馆报纸档案馆的帮助下，他将撰写类似于1912年纽约的小故事。在@tejucole跟着他。

特珠科尔网站：Teju Cole-小命运

The stories I tell in the **all fates are more tightly compressed than most fait divers(thanks to the limitation of length Twitter imposes) and often more laconic. I like to flirt with straight reportage, or the appearance of straight reportage. Each tells a truth, a whole truth, but never the whole truth (but this is true of all storytelling). Details are suppressed, secondary characters vanish, sometimes the "important" aspect of the story is sidestepped in order to highlight a poignant detail.

关于热点

史蒂文·布恩使用苹果专卖店的免费公共Wi-Fi与流浪者、骗子和无家可归者交谈。

首都纽约：史蒂文·布恩-推云：麦当劳的热点和苹果商店的网络恶棍

This was the future a lot of dystopian sci-fi authors warned us about, where a private, profit-hungry corporation could make itself feel like Mom's house. I loved it. For the ridiculous amount of money Apple had raked in during its stellar iPod/iPhone decade, it was willing to let a few stragglers abuse their sample products, maintaining an aura of Californian liberality.

论隐私权

马特布坎南呼吁“通用私人模式按钮。”

FWD：马特·布卡南-我们需要一个全互联网的私人模式

You cannot hide what you’re listening to from your friends on Rdio. You cannot have a private pinboard on Pinterest. You cannot hide your favorites on Twitter. You cannot delete titles from your Netflix history. (Netflix isn’t shared on Facebook right now, but it’s not for lack of wanting to.) Spotify freaks out a little bit when the social thing isn’t working and harangues you c***tantly to connect it to your social networks (even though it, admirably, has a private mode).

论阻塞

Choira Sicha让我们陶醉于阻止人们上网的快乐之中。

锥子：唱诗班西夏-阻止人的乐趣

Every time I see an ad on Twitter, I block the company. (So long, KmartDeals, StaplesUS, Walmart Specials.) Every time someone annoys me majorly, I don't unfollow: I just go the extra mile and block 'em. It's great! You're nuking them from your universe! Am I annoying you? You should block me too!

论规制

michaeljosephgross探讨了网络监管的过去、现在和未来。

《名利场》：迈克尔·约瑟夫·格罗斯-*******

The Net has given more individuals more power in a shorter period of time than any new technology in history. And unlike many other world-changing technologies, there is no institutional barrier to access. This has made it, on balance, mostly destructive of institutional authority, especially that of nation-states.

在电影预告片上

迈克·巴特尔（mikebarthel）着眼于电影预告片在过去20年中是如何演变成一种更为发自内心的媒介，它不只是在短短几分钟内解释电影的大部分情节。或者，用这个借口再看一次普罗米修斯的预告片。

沙龙：迈克·巴特尔——电影预告片革命

Another big change involves the way trailers sound. While the music used tends to be the focus, those noises you hear at the end of the "Prometheus" trailer simply didn’t exist 20 years ago. "That’s a way more subtle effect that I don’t know if the general audience realizes, but people in the industry sure do," said Smith.

关于“数字瘦”

前Flipboard设计师克雷格·莫德（Craig Mod）写了一本他为记录和认可团队构建iPhone应用程序的经验而创作的实体书。

craigmod.com：Craig Mod-数字↔物理的

By December, every piece of the application had been disassembled, scrubbed, and oiled from a user experience, surface design, and information architecture perspective. Furthermore, every piece of the underlying engineering had been hammered and abused in testing for solidity: just try to crash the thing.

论空间与线

早在1996年，尼尔·斯蒂芬森就讲述了世界上最长电线的故事。

连线：尼尔·斯蒂芬森-地球母亲委员会

Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass high tech venture capitali** is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects (I recommend Arthur C. Clarke's book How the World Was One). The only things that have changed since then are that the stakes have gotten **aller, the process more bureaucratized, and the personalities less interesting.

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