我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

正在跟踪

Alexis Madrigal的优秀文章揭示了在线展示广告的世界，数百家公司正在跟踪和提供基于你的在线活动的广告。

《大西洋月刊》：亚历克西斯·马德里加尔（Alexis Madrigal）-我被跟踪了：谷歌（Google）和其他104家公司如何在网络上跟踪我（不要错过Rob Horning对边际效用的回应）

These are phenomena of our time and while there are many antecedent forms of advertising, never before in the history of human existence has so much data been gathered about so many people for the sole purpose of selling them ads.

脉搏

丹·鲍姆介绍了比利·科恩（Billy Cohn）和巴德·弗雷泽（Bud Frazier）这两位医生，他们绕过了几十年的人工心脏开发和数百万年的进化，创造了一种涡轮驱动的心脏，让动物和人类的受体存活，但没有脉搏。

科普：丹·鲍姆-没有脉搏：医生如何重塑人类心脏

After 500 million years of evolution accustoming the human body to blood moving through us in spurts, a pulse may not be necessary. That, in any case, is the point of view of the 50-odd calves, and no fewer than three human beings, who have gotten along just fine with their blood coursing through them as evenly as Freon through an air conditioner.

论觅食

虽然YouTube的自动内容识别系统旨在帮助版权所有者识别音频和视频的侵权使用，但一个无音乐的YouTube视频（一个色拉觅食者的视频）和授权公司Rumblefish之间的奇怪混淆表明，权力已经转移到了内容识别索赔人身上。

Waxy.org网站：Andy Baio-YouTube的内容ID争议由原告裁决

But the last couple years have seen a dramatic rise in Content ID abuse, using it for purposes that it was never intended. Scammers are using Content ID to steal ad revenue from YouTube video creators en masse, with some companies claiming content they don't own, deliberately or not. The inability to understand context and parody regularly leads to "fair use" videos getting blocked, muted or monetized.

在电子书上

罗伯特·穆尔（Robert Moor）回顾了电子文学的历史，从80年代的实验性“作者-程序员”超文本主义者，到最近的Kindle Touch X-Ray功能，亚马逊声称这些功能将向你展示“书的骨骼”

n+1:罗伯特摩尔-书中的骨头

The e-book is usually said to have been invented in 1971, when an undergrad at the University of Illinois, Michael S. Hart, decided to upload The Declaration of Independence onto an ARPAnet server. Sitting in the Materials Research Lab among hulking, warmly breathing Xerox Sigma V processors, Hart went on to input and share, with a quixotic singularity of purpose, text after text, from Peter Pan to The Tempest. Few saw the revolutionary implicati*** of his acti*** until years later, when his Project Gutenberg—which by then had uploaded thousands of books—began to attract copyright lawsuits and became a figurehead for the fledgling hacktivist and open source movements.

超越遗忘

进化者.fm追溯了Boinc的兴衰，这是一个很有前途的音乐服务，2011年底，它在品牌咨询（“Boinc你的设备”缺乏“谷歌”在硅谷的冗长魅力）、聚会、基于Linux的机顶盒原型设计等方面投入了数百万美元后，以惊人的失败告终。

进化者.fm：艾略特·范·布斯柯克《超越遗忘：一家有前途的音乐初创公司如何崩溃》

At CES 2011, he already hired a Steve Jobs impersonator to interrupt business meetings between himself and would-be partners "as a joke." The Steve Jobs look-alike also apparently "roamed the show floor to fool attendees, while an employee filmed the whole thing" — a film that may have been meant for promotional purposes somehow, but which was only seen by employees.

论强制执行

苹果的应用商店与包含攻击性材料的应用程序以及能够访问攻击性材料的应用程序（例如，评级为17+的游戏和Twitter）有着奇怪的关系。Instapaper的Marco Arment指出了苹果长期以来不一致的应用商店评级政策。

马可网：Marco Arment-频繁、强烈的成熟和暗示主题

But the current solution is inc***istent, arbitrary, unfair, and ineffective: entire categories of web-browsing and web-content apps are still permitted to bear 4+ ratings. Teenagers who can’t look at **** in Safari or Atomic Web Browser can just get there from Google Search or Twitter instead.

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