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。

在介质上

Twitter的校友bizstone和evanwilliams本周推出了私有beta版的新媒体发布平台，作为他们公司的一部分。现在还不太清楚，除了强调质量而不是数字杂乱，还有排版之外，尼曼实验室的约书亚·本顿和锥子的唱诗班·西夏有两个最好的例子来说明它对自我出版和广告的意义。

尼曼新闻实验室：约书亚本顿-看媒体的13种方式，@ev和obsible的新博客/分享/发现平台

The space Medium, er, mediates is between two poles. On one side you’ve got people who want to hang out a shingle online and own their work in every possible sense. On the other, you’ve got people who are happy in the friendly confines of Facebook and Twitter, places where they can reach their friends effortlessly and not worry about writing elegant prose. Is there an audience between those two poles that’s big enough to build something lasting? Is this Blogger or Twitter, or is it Odeo?

锥子：唱诗班西夏-美丽的新网络和未来的“本土”广告

The anti-advertising bias—as Dash put it, "page-based sites are cramming every corner and bit of white space on their sites with ads that only ever decrease in effectiveness until they are made even larger and more intrusive every few years" — has a strong chance of resulting in advertising that you’ll wish was crammed into an isolated box.

论“网络障碍”

就在几年前，在Facebook出现之前，互联网提供了一种完全不同的社区，匿名性和专业知识以非常有趣的方式混合在一起（“留言板、聊天室和新生的博客”）。伯利恒浅滩考虑到向互联网的转变，在互联网上我们不断地接触和暴露“我们生活的平凡”

锥子：伯利恒浅滩-条件：慢性自我披露

And that was just it: Instead of the internet working against our real lives in provocative ways, it became an extension of them. The looking glass was now a mirror; instead of reinventing us, the web simply provided more of us to the world, and more ways to take advantage of the world around us.

在杂志上

本月早些时候，《世界》杂志在发行量审计局（Audit Bureau of Circulati***）的最新报告中表现不佳——报摊的发行量明显下降——大卫卡尔（David Carr）审视了尽管有新的数字化举措，但该行业的困境。

****：大卫卡尔-想知道杂志会跌多远

I talked to an executive at one of the big Manhattan publishers about the recent collapse at the newsstand and he said, "When the airplane suddenly drops 10,000 feet and it doesn’t crash, you still end up with your heart in your stomach. Those are very, very bad numbers."

论足球

简·利维介绍了安·麦基博士和她的验尸工作，验尸工作检查了NFL球员的大脑。

格兰特兰：简·利维——拯救足球的女人

he most affecting of McKee's visual aids is a triptych she created documenting the progression of the disease. When she paints, she prefers oils, figurative painting. This digital portrait is dec***tructed 21st-century abstract art. The first panel, a slice of healthy brain tissue, reminds me of one in a series of Sam Francis paintings called "Blue Balls" but rendered in purples and whites. The second panel, a section of John Grimsley's brain, looks like a Jackson Pollock — Shimmering Substance, perhaps. The last panel from the boxer, who was her patient zero, calls to mind Willem de Kooning's Excavation.

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