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。

關於評論

對每一篇文章的強制性評論是必要的邪惡，還是我們承擔的負擔？

紐約動物報：喬爾·約翰遜-評論對網路媒體來說是不好的生意

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***.

論孤獨

史蒂文·馬奇（Steven Marche）深入現代孤獨的世界，並質疑Facebook是否在推動淺層關係的增長。

《大西洋》：史蒂文·馬奇——Facebook讓我們感到孤獨嗎？

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

保羅•福特（paulford）對Facebook斥資10億美元收購Instagram一事進行了調侃，他冷靜地分析了為什麼那麼多Instagram使用者對馬克•扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）的宣告感到憤怒而退縮。另外，看看馬特·韋伯對Instagram的看法，他認為Instagram是一個島國經濟體。

紐約：每日英特爾：保羅福特-Facebook和Instagram：當你最喜歡的應用銷售一空

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網站

作為一種愛好，菲爾·吉福德早在2003年就開始在網上出版塞繆爾·佩皮斯的17世紀日記。吉福德繼續這個專案將近十年，當佩皮斯在1669年5月31日寫下他的最後一篇日記時，吉福德將在2012年5月31日結束他的部落格。

連線英國：羅素M戴維斯-歷史將記住塞繆爾佩皮斯的部落格

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."

關於imessage

丹·莫倫認為，蘋果透過將iMessage整合到桌面資訊應用程式中，打破了線上聊天的平衡，並詳細闡述了為什麼即時資訊都是關於控制的。

Macworld:danmoren-iMessage和即時訊息應該有不同的應用程式

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

貝絲·卡爾布介紹了約翰·伯格森發明的夢幻棒球，早在比爾·詹姆斯和比利·比恩之前就預見到了劍術。

格蘭特蘭：貝斯卡爾布-棒球電子游戲的創始人

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解釋了使用microsoftword的痛苦，以及它無法超越列印模式。希望office15能提供一些改進。

板岩：湯姆斯科卡-死到臨頭

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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