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“人们盯着电脑看”

艺术家凯尔·麦克唐纳（kylemcdonald）讲述了他苹果商店项目“人们盯着电脑看”背后的故事，该项目拍下了纽约苹果商店里人们的照片，以及他与特勤局的私奔。

连线：凯尔·麦克唐纳——当艺术、苹果和特勤局发生冲突时：“人们盯着电脑看”

Then I saw the comments. Hundreds and hundreds of comments, on dozens of major blogs. I’m no stranger to publicity, but this was on a completely different scale. Everyone had an opinion and wanted to argue with each other. Yet I had to remain completely silent. I spoke only with my parents, for a few minutes. Once I saw it on the BBC, I knew if I didn’t tell them first, my grandmother would.

论盈利能力

鉴于Digg最近以低于百万美元的价格**，以及Facebook在IP发布后的粗略表现，德里克·波瓦泽克（Derek Powazek）进行了一次关于全消费竞争的思考实验，以实现增长的货币化。

波瓦泽克：德里克波瓦泽克-如果社交网络就是不赚钱呢？

What if we all realized that social networks are a societal good (at least as good as a local alt weekly) but not necessarily good businesses? We’re all desperately hoping that Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr will figure out the secret ingredient that turns a large-scale community of free members into a cash machine. What if we’re all just waiting for the impossible? Like a business that turns water into gold?

关于初创企业

Maria Bustillos回顾了她在21世纪前后作为一家初创公司联合创始人的“超现实”时期，质疑如今投资如此巨大的到底是什么。

转发：玛丽亚布斯蒂洛斯-风投如何把我的创业变成一场噩梦

I did meet one angel back in those days, a very rich entrepreneur, who articulated something of the problem we were facing then, and are now facing for the second time. "If you're doing this mainly so you can get rich," he said, "that's a huge red flag for me. The people who are going to succeed aren't the ones who just want to get rich."

论网络成瘾

Alexis Madrigal回应《新闻周刊》最近关于网瘾的封面报道。

《大西洋》：亚历克西斯·马德里加——一个网瘾者的自白

There was no doubt that he felt the magnetic power of his phone and its tentacled apps at inappropriate times (dinner, watching movies, Christmas Eve). There was no doubt that sometimes the medium overtook the messages. He would tweet something solely so it would be retweeted. He would check Instagram twice in 10 minutes. The means to connect would become an ends; the feedback mechani**, the game mechanic, would flatten real connecti*** into numbers.

论图书馆与电子书

davida.Bell认为图书馆在日益数字化的世界中扮演着重要的角色。

新共和国：大卫·A·贝尔——无书图书馆

Far more readers, of course, appreciate physical books for their aesthetic qualities: the feel of the paper, the crisp look of print on the page, the elegant binding, the pleasant heft of the volume in the hand, the sense of history embedded in a venerable edition that has gone through many owners. But this sort of pleasure, real and meaningful as it is, is harder to justify financially, as resources grow increasingly scarce.

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