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。

把本周的阅读作为一个阅读列表。

关于缩放

保罗•福特（paulford）在书中谈到了占领华尔街运动的分支滚滚禧年（rollingjubilee），该组织提议以低廉的价格收购消费者债务，以及在政治、经济复苏等领域出现的规模扩张问题。

纽约：保罗福特-大问题，小解决方案：对于新占领，规模就是一切

Scaling is everything. A site that works perfectly for a hundred people fails catastrophically with a hundred thousand. If you expect traffic you can’t just hope for the best. There are dials to turn, files to configure, variables to tweak. For big companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google, a huge portion of their annual effort is in scaling—ferreting out weak links and choke points and replacing them with finely tuned code on finely tuned hardware.

关于密码

Mat Honan的背部深入研究了安全性，这一次着眼于密码的过去、现在和未来。

连线：马特霍南-杀死密码：为什么一串字符不能保护我们了

Eventually, as the number of epic hacks increased, we started to lean on a curious psychological crutch: the notion of the "strong" password. It’s the compromise that growing web companies came up with to keep people signing up and entrusting data to their sites. It’s the Band-Aid that’s now being washed away in a river of blood.

论选举技术

亚历克西斯·马德里加尔（Alexis Madrigal）写到了奥巴马竞选连任背后的数字化努力的压力和成功，从哈珀·里德（Harper Reed）和他的科技团队到社会前线。

大西洋：亚历克西斯·马德里加尔——当书呆子们走进来的时候

For all the hoopla surrounding the digital savvy of President Obama's 2008 campaign, and as much as everyone I spoke with loved it, it was not as heavily digital or technological as it is now remembered. "Facebook was about one-tenth of the size that it is now. Twitter was a nothing burger for the campaign. It wasn't a core or even peripheral part of our strategy," said Teddy Goff, Digital Director of Obama for America and a veteran of both campaigns. Think about the killer tool of that campaign, my.barackobama.com; It borrowed the my from MySpace.

付款时

干草叉：Damon Krukowski-赚分钱

来自alt摇滚乐队Galaxie 500的达蒙·克鲁科夫斯基（Damon Krukowski）深入研究了Spotify和Pandora支付的款项，以提供一些关于版税和流媒体音乐的观点。

As businesses, Pandora and Spotify are divorced from music. To me, it's a short logical step to observe that they are doing nothing for the business of music-- except undermining the simple cottage industry of pressing ideas onto vinyl, and selling them for more than they cost to manufacture. I am no Luddite-- I am not **ashing iPhones or sabotaging software. In fact, I subscribe to Spotify for $9.99 a month (the equivalent of 680,462 annual plays of "Tugboat") because I love music, and the access it gives me to music of all kinds is incredible.

叙利亚问题

斯蒂芬·法里斯（Stephan Faris）调查正在进行的黑客攻击、网络造谣，以及更多在叙利亚冲突中使用的信息。

彭博商业周刊：斯蒂芬法里斯-大马士革的黑客

The cyberwar in Syria began with a feint. On Feb. 8, 2011, just as the Arab Spring was reaching a crescendo, the government in Damascus suddenly reversed a long-standing ban on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the Arabic version of Wikipedia. It was an odd move for a regime known for heavy-handed censorship; before the uprising, police regularly arrested bloggers and raided Internet cafes. And it came at an odd time.

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