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。

斯坦福和矽谷

肯•奧萊塔（kenauletta）審視了斯坦福大學及其校長約翰•軒尼詩（johnhennessy）與矽谷的密切關係，以及該校未能在紐約開設分校的情況。

《紐約客》：肯·奧萊塔——美國發財。

But online education might also disrupt everything that distinguishes Stanford. Could a student on a video prompter have coffee with a venture capitalist? Could one become a T-student through Web chat? Stanford has been aligned with Silicon Valley and its culture of disruption. Now Hennessy and Stanford have to seriously contemplate whether more efficiency is synonymous with a better education.

指向

克雷格·莫德（Craig Mod）最近就網路指點的重要性寫了一系列有趣的文章，這清楚地解釋了為什麼大多數出版商的iPad應用程式使用起來如此令人沮喪。

@克雷格Mod:Craig Mod-一個有意義的we[1/3]，[2/3]，[3/3]

This lack of platforminess is what makes many iPad magazine apps impotent. They end up in no better a position than a printed magazine. There are no routes by which you can directly get to their content. You can't point in. You're forced to go through the "front door" to get anywhere. And it's a door usually weighing several hundred megabytes and infuriatingly difficult to unlock.

論走私

在過去十年的大部分時間裡，92歲的海曼·斯特拉奇曼每週花60多個小時複製電影，把inc-are包裹寄給國外的美軍士兵。

****：艾倫·施瓦茲——92歲，好萊塢的強盜，士兵的英雄

Mr. Strachman has never ripped a movie from a store-bought DVD and does not even know how; rather, he bought bootlegged discs for $5 in Penn Station before finding a dealer closer to home, at his local barbershop. Those discs were either recordings made illegally in theaters or studio cuts that had been leaked.

在赫芬頓郵報

邁克爾·夏皮羅（michaelshapiro）描述了《赫芬頓郵報》（Huffington Post）從2005年年中的正式釋出到最近的普利策獎（Pulitzer Prize）的成功，同時也回顧了網路和病毒性的動態。

哥倫比亞新聞評論：邁克爾·夏皮羅-六度聚合：赫芬頓郵報如何吞噬網際網路

Still, networks were eternally undermined by the inevitable force of randomness. It was one thing, say, to go to a baseball game and hear the stirrings of rhythmic clapping that then cascade around the ballpark so that quickly everyone is clapping in unison. A powerful thing to behold—so much so that an inning later, you yourself might want to start the whole stadium clapping. Maybe the person to your left joins in, and maybe five or six others do, too. Until the clapping dies. In Watts’s view, networks were a wonderful phenomenon to observe, but all but impossible to replicate. Why did everyone in the ballpark feel the desire to join in the clapping in the sixth inning but not in the seventh?

論通用圖書館

尼古拉斯·卡爾（nicholascarr）提供了一本極好的入門書，介紹了建立通用圖書館的艱難努力，從Google圖書搜尋到美國數字公共圖書館專案。

技術評論：尼古拉斯卡爾-烏託邦圖書館

Darnton soon became the most eminent and influential critic of the Book Search settlement, writing articles and giving lectures in opposition to the deal. His critici** was as withering as it was learned. Google Book Search, he maintained, was "a commercial speculation" that, under the liberal terms of the settlement, seemed fated to grow into "a hegemonic, financially unbeatable, technologically unassailable, and legally invulnerable enterprise that can crush all competition." It would become "a monopoly of a new kind, not of railroads or steel, but of access to information."

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