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。

在facebook上

汤姆·西蒙尼特（Tom Simonite）观察了Facebook的卡梅隆·马洛（Cameron Marlow）和他的数据科学团队，一个“社交网络时代的贝尔实验室”

技术评论：Tom Simonite-Facebook知道什么

Recently the Data Science Team has begun to use its unique position to experiment with the way Facebook works, tweaking the site—the way scientists might prod an ant's nest—to see how users react. Eytan Bakshy, who joined Facebook last year after collaborating with Marlow as a PhD student at the University of Michigan, wanted to learn whether our acti*** on Facebook are mainly influenced by those of our close friends, who are likely to have similar tastes. That would shed light on the theory that our Facebook friends create an "echo chamber" that amplifies news and opini*** we have already heard about. So he messed with how Facebook operated for a quarter of a billion users.

“街头斗士”

西蒙帕金简介Capcom的小野寺五典，最著名的帮助恢复与街头斗士四街战斗机专营权。

Eurogamer.net：西蒙·帕金——小野寺五典的兴衰

In my philosophy, Street Fighter is a game, but really it’s a tool. It’s like playing cards or chess or tennis: it’s really about the people. Once you know the rules it’s up to the players to put themselves in the game, to choose the nuance of how they play and express themselves.

关于外星人

亚历克斯·帕帕德马斯和肖恩·维茨克深入地讨论了所有外星人的事情。

格兰特兰：亚历克斯·帕帕德马斯和肖恩·维茨克（不怎么）关于外星人的简短对话

Fincher is a massive fan of those guys, too — he's the reason we have the Blade Runner special edition without Ford's voice-over, because he and his producer took a day off on Alien3 to go see a revival of Blade Runner and the studio had accidentally sent the theater a print without the narration, and Fincher made some noise in Hollywood to get it released.

在twitter上

推特有什么用？它对写作有何影响？这真的让格言复活了吗？n+1编辑称了称。

n+1:编辑们-请回答

The signed-up user is apt to have more mixed feelings. At its best, Twitter delights and instructs. Somebody, often somebody you wouldn’t expect, condenses the World-Spirit into a great joke, epigram, or aperçu. What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed, you think, and favorite the tweet. Or: So funny, and you retweet.

关于雷·布拉德伯里

io9从即将出版的雷·布拉德伯里选集中摘录了作者尼尔·盖曼的作品。

io9:Neil Gaiman-必读：Neil Gaiman向Ray Bradbury致敬

I had read the books, I had seen the film, and the burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will become them. We become authors. We become their books.

在亚马逊

《洛杉矶时报》书评前编辑史蒂夫·沃瑟曼记录了亚马逊的崛起和出版业的现状。

国家：史蒂夫·沃瑟曼-亚马逊效应

"Books are incredibly unusual in one respect," Bezos said, "and that is that there are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category by far." A devotee of the Culture of Metrics, Bezos was undaunted. He was sure that the algorithms of computerized search and access would provide the keys to a c***umer kingdom whose riches were as yet undiscovered and barely dreamed of, and so he set out to c***truct a twenty-first-century ordering mechani** that, at least for the short term, would deliver goods the old-fashioned way: by hand, from warehouses via the Postal Service and commercial shippers.

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