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facebook上

湯姆·西蒙尼特（Tom Simonite）觀察了Facebook的卡梅隆·馬洛（Cameron Marlow）和他的資料科學團隊，一個“社交網路時代的貝爾實驗室”

技術評論：Tom Simonite-Facebook知道什麼

Recently the Data Science Team has begun to use its unique position to experiment with the way Facebook works, tweaking the site—the way scientists might prod an ant's nest—to see how users react. Eytan Bakshy, who joined Facebook last year after collaborating with Marlow as a PhD student at the University of Michigan, wanted to learn whether our acti*** on Facebook are mainly influenced by those of our close friends, who are likely to have similar tastes. That would shed light on the theory that our Facebook friends create an "echo chamber" that amplifies news and opini*** we have already heard about. So he messed with how Facebook operated for a quarter of a billion users.

“街頭鬥士”

西蒙帕金簡介Capcom的小野寺五典，最著名的幫助恢復與街頭鬥士四街戰鬥機專營權。

Eurogamer.net：西蒙·帕金——小野寺五典的興衰

In my philosophy, Street Fighter is a game, but really it’s a tool. It’s like playing cards or chess or tennis: it’s really about the people. Once you know the rules it’s up to the players to put themselves in the game, to choose the nuance of how they play and express themselves.

關於外星人

亞歷克斯·帕帕德馬斯和肖恩·維茨克深入地討論了所有外星人的事情。

格蘭特蘭：亞歷克斯·帕帕德馬斯和肖恩·維茨克（不怎麼）關於外星人的簡短對話

Fincher is a massive fan of those guys, too — he's the reason we have the Blade Runner special edition without Ford's voice-over, because he and his producer took a day off on Alien3 to go see a revival of Blade Runner and the studio had accidentally sent the theater a print without the narration, and Fincher made some noise in Hollywood to get it released.

在twitter上

推特有什麼用？它對寫作有何影響？這真的讓格言複活了嗎？n+1編輯稱了稱。

n+1:編輯們-請回答

The signed-up user is apt to have more mixed feelings. At its best, Twitter delights and instructs. Somebody, often somebody you wouldn’t expect, condenses the World-Spirit into a great joke, epigram, or aperçu. What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed, you think, and favorite the tweet. Or: So funny, and you retweet.

關於雷·布拉德伯裡

io9從即將出版的雷·布拉德伯裡選集中摘錄了作者尼爾·蓋曼的作品。

io9:Neil Gaiman-必讀：Neil Gaiman向Ray Bradbury致敬

I had read the books, I had seen the film, and the burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will become them. We become authors. We become their books.

在亞馬遜

《洛杉磯時報》書評前編輯史蒂夫·沃瑟曼記錄了亞馬遜的崛起和出版業的現狀。

國家：史蒂夫·沃瑟曼-亞馬遜效應

"Books are incredibly unusual in one respect," Bezos said, "and that is that there are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category by far." A devotee of the Culture of Metrics, Bezos was undaunted. He was sure that the algorithms of computerized search and access would provide the keys to a c***umer kingdom whose riches were as yet undiscovered and barely dreamed of, and so he set out to c***truct a twenty-first-century ordering mechani** that, at least for the short term, would deliver goods the old-fashioned way: by hand, from warehouses via the Postal Service and commercial shippers.

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