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。

关于评论

对每一篇文章的强制性评论是必要的邪恶，还是我们承担的负担？

纽约动物报：乔尔·约翰逊-评论对网络媒体来说是不好的生意

Moreover, the most active commenters are given a sense of entitlement by the deference they’ve been given by media experts and all-internet-is-good-internet cheerleaders over the years, leading to authors who live in perpetual fear of shaming by the very people who are supposedly their most ardent fans. We somehow fooled ourselves into thinking we owed random people the right to comment on our work literally on our work, that this was somehow an integral part of the comm***.

论孤独

史蒂文·马奇（Steven Marche）深入现代孤独的世界，并质疑Facebook是否在推动浅层关系的增长。

《大西洋》：史蒂文·马奇——Facebook让我们感到孤独吗？

The beauty of Facebook, the source of its power, is that it enables us to be social while sparing us the embarrassing reality of society—the accidental revelati*** we make at parties, the awkward pauses, the farting and the spilled drinks and the general gaucherie of face-to-face contact. Instead, we have the lovely **oothness of a seemingly social machine. Everything’s so simple: status updates, pictures, your wall.

在instagram上

保罗•福特（paulford）对Facebook斥资10亿美元收购Instagram一事进行了调侃，他冷静地分析了为什么那么多Instagram用户对马克•扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）的声明感到愤怒而退缩。另外，看看马特·韦伯对Instagram的看法，他认为Instagram是一个岛国经济体。

纽约：每日英特尔：保罗福特-Facebook和Instagram：当你最喜欢的应用销售一空

Then along comes Facebook, the great alien presence that just hovers over our cities, year after year, as we wait and fear. You turn on the television and there it is, right above the Empire State Building, humming. And now a hole has opened up on its base and it has dumped a billion dollars into a public square — which turned out to not be public, but actually belongs to a few suddenly-very-rich dudes.

在pepysdiary.com网站

作为一种爱好，菲尔·吉福德早在2003年就开始在网上出版塞缪尔·佩皮斯的17世纪日记。吉福德继续这个项目将近十年，当佩皮斯在1669年5月31日写下他的最后一篇日记时，吉福德将在2012年5月31日结束他的博客。

连线英国：罗素M戴维斯-历史将记住塞缪尔佩皮斯的博客

From the start it was clear that Pepysdiary.com meant something. Clay Shirky said in 2003, talking about the emergence of blogs: "The vertigo moment for me was when Phil Gyford launched the Pepys weblog... What that said to me was: Phil was asserting, and I now believe, that weblogs will be around for at least ten years, because that's how long Pepys kept a diary. And that was this moment of projecting into the future: this is now infrastructure we can take for granted."

关于imessage

丹·莫伦认为，苹果通过将iMessage整合到桌面信息应用程序中，打破了在线聊天的平衡，并详细阐述了为什么即时信息都是关于控制的。

Macworld:danmoren-iMessage和即时消息应该有不同的应用程序

Instant messaging is inherently a stateful system: You’re online, you’re away, you’re idle, you’re invisible, you’re offline. Most importantly, you get to dictate your status. For instance, I mark myself as away when I’m at lunch; sometimes—spoiler alert—I’m still at my desk; I just want to dissuade people from expecting a prompt reply.

幻想棒球

贝丝·卡尔布介绍了约翰·伯格森发明的梦幻棒球，早在比尔·詹姆斯和比利·比恩之前就预见到了剑术。

格兰特兰：贝斯卡尔布-棒球电子游戏的创始人

By the end of 1960, John’s life had slowed to an existential halt. Just before Christmas, he came down with a nasty flu. Bedridden, bored as all hell, and finally surrounded by a rare quiet, he thought about the IBM 1620, and how its algorithmic alacrity bordered on self-learning, and realized, maybe deliriously, that the machine had the capability of making a little baseball simulator.

在microsoft word上

tomscocca解释了使用microsoftword的痛苦，以及它无法超越打印模式。希望office15能提供一些改进。

板岩：汤姆斯科卡-死到临头

It took years for me to get to this point. I came of age with Word. It’s the program I used to write my college papers, overcoming old-fashioned page counts with its magical font-switching technology: Times, tightly justified, if the writing was running too long; airily monospaced Courier if things were too short. In those days, Word was an obedient and resourceful servant.

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