我們都知道這種感覺。你在悲傷的夜晚失眠，或者在朦朧的週末清晨蹣跚而行，需要一些閱讀的東西，而那一堆未讀的書並不能阻止你。為什麼不從Twitter和RSS的消防水龍帶中休息一下，看看我們每週從網路上收集的關於技術、文化、媒體和未來的重要文章？當然，坐在Instapaper佇列中你會感到內疚的還有一件事，但總比再次在Twitter列表上徒勞地拉好。

論中國

本週《****》的兩篇重要文章探討了蘋果的供應鏈，並指出了危險的勞動條件，以質疑消費電子行業對中國**商的依賴。正如一位現任匿名蘋果高管所說，“現在，消費者更關心的是一部新iPhone，而不是中國的工作條件。”

《****》：查爾斯·杜希格和大衛·巴博薩——在中國，人力成本是建立在iPad上的

"You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can reinvent the product every year, and make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards," said a current Apple executive.

查爾斯·杜希格和基思·布拉德謝爾——美國是如何在iPhone上失利的

"Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S. now," said Jared Bernstein, who until last year was an economic adviser to the White House. "If it’s the pinnacle of capitali**, we should be worried."

論出版

布拉德·斯通講述了拉里·基什鮑姆（Larry Kirshbaum）從紐約出版社神聖的大廳到亞馬遜新出版部門負責人的歷程，以及數字世界和印刷世界之間日益緊張的關係。

商業週刊：布拉德斯通-亞馬遜的**

Then last March, Random House, the biggest book publisher in the U.S., announced that it too would sell e-books using agency pricing. Amazon could no longer run the best play out of its playbook—slash prices and sustain losses in the short term to gain market share over the long term. Sure enough, with no stark price disadvantage, the Nook e-reader store and Apple’s iBookstore for the iPad started to gain market share. "For the first time, a level playing field was going to get forced on Amazon…"

論清潔技術的失敗

2009年至2011年間，**和風投在清潔技術領域投入了445億美元，Wired利用太陽能電池**商Solyndra的失敗（奧巴馬在2010年的工廠訪問中稱之為“經濟增長引擎”）來解釋清潔技術泡沫是如何破滅的。

連線：朱麗葉·艾爾佩林——為什麼清潔技術的繁榮破滅了

What a lot of them didn’t bargain for, and, frankly, didn’t really understand," he says, "is that it’s almost never going to be five guys in a garage. You need a heck of a lot of money to prove that you can do your technology at scale."

在奇怪的網際網路上

馬克斯·裡德簡介專家“怪異的網際網路”館長凱蒂·諾託普洛斯（Katie Notopoulos）總是發現一些奇怪的事情，比如推特上說，“哭著睡覺是因為我看不懂這個《失樂園》的摘要，因為維基百科被黑了。-.-".

馬克斯·裡德-怪異的網際網路：與“線上好奇收藏家”凱蒂·諾託普洛斯的對話

The patterns that Katie curates, whether for a few hours on her Twitter, or in a more extensive and permanent way on one of her many blogs, tend to highlight the special way that the internet makes our most serious and meaningful desires and expressi*** come across as petty and absurd.

唯利是圖的技術人員

阿德里安陳介紹了馬丁，一個黑帽網路聲譽經理的“高凈值個人”和自稱“**軍駭客”誰是直接從威廉吉布森小說。

加奎爾：阿德里安陳-唯利是圖的技術誰為毒販和嫉妒情人的麻煩

Standing on the sidewalk, Martin explained the snoop-resistant system he had devised: a makeshift private cell phone network built around prepaid phones, dozens of SIM cards and plastic pill organizers—the kind seniors use to keep their meds in order.

乾草叉上

理查德·貝克講述了瑞安·施賴伯的音樂網站Pitchfork如何利用網際網路在21世紀對音樂和炒作的影響以及該網站對音樂消費的影響。

n+1:Richard Beck-Pitchfork，1995年至今

By keeping user-generated comments off the site, Pitchfork has behaved more like a magazine than the magazines have. The only major modification Schreiber made to the print template—putting reviews, not interviews or features, at the center—was an ingenious adaptation to the dynamics of internet buzz: interviews may sell the rock and roll lifestyle, but reviews are what blogs will link to and argue about.

關於“超級metroid”

即使你不是超級都市迷，雨果·比爾（Hugo Bille）對超級任天堂經典遊戲的分析也表明，遊戲設計師們能夠很好地管理玩家對遊戲世界的心理形象。

伽瑪索特拉：雨果比爾-超級都市的看不見的手

Since the player never completely leaves an area behind and forgets about it, the game world c***tantly expands in the mind of the player. By never completely exhausting an area before moving on to the next, Metroidvanias promise us that if we remember and acquaint ourselves with the game world, it will not go unrewarded.

在facebook訂閱上

我們自己的勞拉·瓊（Laura June）捕捉到了Facebook最近訂閱功能的最新狀態：“你是人類並不意味著你不是垃圾郵件。”

羅梅內斯科：吉姆·羅梅內斯科——Facebook狀態更新實驗

But I know too that the majority of my 15,000-plus subscribers — including Socrat Jim Jones P ("Engineer at My Sweet Factory") — really have no interest in U.S. media. These Facebook Subscribe numbers that are being thrown around are bogus.

論群體思維

這是本月早些時候的一篇文章，但不要錯過蘇珊·凱恩關於合作崇拜和被低估的孤獨重要性的文章。

《****》：蘇珊·凱恩——新群體思維的興起

Culturally, we’re often so dazzled by chari**a that we overlook the quiet part of the creative process. C***ider Apple. In the wake of Steve Jobs’s death, we’ve seen a profusion of myths about the company’s success. Most focus on Mr. Jobs’s supernatural magneti** and tend to ignore the other crucial figure in Apple’s creation: a kindly, introverted engineering wizard, Steve Wozniak, who toiled alone on a beloved invention, the personal computer.

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