本週最佳科技作品，5月20日

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。...

在膠片上

數字電影**最終超越了傳統的細胞庫存有很多原因，但這兩種格式之間的鬥爭還遠遠沒有結束。《大西洋月刊》考慮了電影在數字衝擊面前的彈性。

大西洋：Jason Apuzzo&amp；戈文迪尼·默蒂——在暑期票房上，兩種拍攝方式的較量

David Fincher are already including media players along with their archived digital footage in order to guarantee that the footage can actually be watched years down the line.

在盒子上

Vanessa Grigoriadis與IAC的Barry Diller就Aereo、媒體領域和有線電視行業緩慢的創新步伐展開了討論。

紐約：凡妮莎·格裡戈裡亞迪斯-炸掉盒子

Why is it that the remote control attached to the set-top box and the navigation systems are so lame? Cable has not needed to innovate. When the first innovation came along, TiVo, they killed it. I’m not saying they’re bad folks by any stretch, but the natural forces of technology are forcing a level playing field— now, people will come up with new ideas and compete.

在電視上

在本週《紐約》的另一篇精彩文章中，馬特·佐勒·塞茨（Matt Zoller Seitz）探討了現場反應和插曲重述的文化如何永遠改變了我們看電視的方式。

紐約：馬特·佐勒·塞茨——馬特·佐勒·塞茨談電視的不斷變化的界限

These were seized on, dissected, criticized, and debated within hours of their airing, with a thoroughness that might have unfolded over days not too long ago. The online record of people’s instant reacti*** may be critically incomplete, but it has personal and journalistic value. It shows us how people reacted to television moments when they happened and tells us about the changing culture and the technology that increasingly shapes it.

在flickr上

考慮到Instagram最近數十億美元的**和Facebook的IPO，Mat Honan講述了Flickr被雅虎收購的故事，這個故事發生了可怕的錯誤。

Gizmodo:Mat Honan——雅虎是如何殺死Flickr並失去網際網路的

It was a stunning failure in vision, and more or less the same thing happened at Flickr. All Yahoo cared about was the database its users had built and tagged. It didn't care about the community that had created it or (more importantly) continuing to grow that community by introducing new features.

論儲存與仿效

韋斯利·芬龍解釋了正確模仿過去經典的16位影片遊戲系統的困難和重要性。

測試：韋斯利芬龍-16位時間膠囊：SNES模擬器使軟體儲存的情況。同樣的，看看開發者Byuu 2011年在ars technica的文章。

Historians will be able to look back on the engineering performed at Nintendo R&D 2 in the late 1980s through the window of bsnes — or some future software built from byuu's source code — and see almost exactly how this one video game c***ole functioned. And 100 years from now, at least some of the ROMs uploaded to the Internet will actually be legal.

最後，請不要錯過我們關於Facebook的最佳長篇寫作綜述。

在facebook上

太多？然後我們推薦哈佛大學深紅學院facebook.com就在2004年它在哈佛大學推出的幾天后。

哈佛深紅：凱文J.費尼-商務，休閑

Zuckerberg had the same devil-may-care attitude this fall, when a federal lawsuit added an expected $20,000 to TheFacebook’s monthly expenses. In total, Zuckerberg says the lawsuit filed by Divya K. Narendra ’04, Cameron S. H. Winklevoss ’04, and Tyler O. H. Winklevoss ’04 of Connect-U could cost TheFacebook upwards of $200,000. "But whatever, it’s just money," he says. "We’ll just sell more ads or something."

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