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。

植物大战僵尸

克里斯·达伦编造了一个令人愉快的谎言，让他的儿子不再痴迷于植物大战僵尸。

无敌：克里斯·达伦-远洋！

Before I tell you the story of how I tricked and deceived my son, an innocent 7-year-old who trusts me with his life, his happiness and his dignity, let me first explain how much I hate Plants vs. Zombies. I cringe just typing the name. A clip of the music or a piece of the art is enough to make my gut shrink. I don’t blame the game, which is a perfectly great, **artphone-friendly tower defense title. I hate it because of my son.

在计算机上

davidauerbach深入探讨了为什么理解人类语言和危险问题对我们硅基的兄弟来说如此困难，以及Amazon、Google和其他公司是如何处理这些分类和意义问题的。

n+1:大卫·奥尔巴赫——计算机的愚蠢

IBM’s Watson supercomputer defeated two top Jeopardy! players last year, but for the clue "What grasshoppers eat," Watson answered: "Kosher." For all the data he could access within a fraction of a second—one of the greatest corpuses ever assembled—Watson looked awfully dumb.

在youtubers上

罗伯·沃克（robwalker）介绍了在YouTube上获得数百万浏览量的“YouTubers”，并在此过程中建立了自己的职业生涯。

****：罗伯沃克-在YouTube上，业余选手是新的职业选手

Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.

在井上

霍华德•莱茵戈尔德（Howard Rheingold）本周有消息称，这口井将被**，他还记得，在Facebook和Twitter出现之前，这个拥有近30年历史的在线社区早就蓬勃发展起来了。

《大西洋》：霍华德·莱茵戈尔德——油井的兴衰告诉我们关于网络社区的什么

PLATO, Usenet, and BBSs all pre-dated the WELL. But what happened in this one particular online enclave in the 1980s had repercussi*** we would hardly have dreamed of when we started mixing online and face-to-face lives at WELL gatherings. Steve Case lurked on the WELL before he founded AOL and so did Craig Newmark, a decade before he started Craigslist.

论病毒的挖掘

Adrien Chen在YouTube上探索了病毒式成功的阴暗面，无论哪里有钱都会发生。

Gawker:Adrien Chen-病毒视频微型电子工业综合体；或者，从巴士女士视频中赚钱

Viral Spiral attempts to monetize their clients' videos like a traditional agent might try to sell a screenwriter's Hollywood film project. The company employs a full-time researcher to scour the internet for the next lucrative viral hit, and they thought the bus monitor video might be it.

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