本週最佳科技作品，1月8日

我們都知道這種感覺。你在一個悲傷的夜晚失眠，或者在一個朦朧的週末早晨絆倒在那裡，需要閱讀的東西，而那堆未讀的書並沒有把它剪掉。為什麼不從Twitter和RSS的消防水管中解脫出來，看看我們每週從網路上收集的關於技術、文化、媒體和未來的基本寫作的綜述？當然，坐在Instapaper佇列中還有一件事你會感到內疚，但這比在Twitter列表上白費力氣好。...

在youtube上

本週早些時候，《紐約客》（newyorker）對YouTube、網路電視和谷歌在專業內容上的巨大投資的深入展望是閱讀的關鍵。

紐約人：約翰·肖布魯克-流式夢想

"We’re absolutely nothing compared to TV," he said. "And this is why I came to YouTube. I want to take this"—he pointed to YouTube’s screen time—"up, and in a big way, because I think we can. And, if we do, this industry"—TV—"is worth three hundred billion dollars, worldwide, and we hope to see value shifting hands."

論評論

殘酷、刻薄的評論文化在網路上繼續傳播。

信徒：梅根·達姆-哈特拉德

But if three years ago the phenomenon felt like a wave that was about to crest and then surely dissipate into a vague memory of some fleeting, anarchic period in the history of the internet ("Remember back in 2008 when only idiots posted comments?" we imagined ourselves chortling one day), it feels today like the disease-ridden aftermath of a flood. Ugly commentary doesn’t just litter the internet, it infects it.

論遊戲

2011年，詹森•約翰遜（Jason Johnson）從40到80小時的遊戲中脫穎而出，投身於超光速遊戲領域。同樣，不要錯過湯姆尤因的“帶我去河邊”在乾草叉從十二月。

殺戮熒屏日報：傑森·約翰遜-多動症的一年

This is the first year that playing videogames has made me feel like I have ADHD. Nesting in front of the TV for a 40- to 80-hour run through The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim or The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword sounds more like exile than an excursion. The thing is, I no longer want to escape. I want to be fed a steady stream of data through a Wi-Fi antenna that is positioned as close to my brain as possible-which often turns out to be on my phone, a download service, or linked to in a blog.

關於wwic

針對保羅·福特的《網路是一種****媒介》一書，Percolate的諾亞·布里爾（Noah Brier）認為，如果Facebook和Twitter只是數百萬人出去閑逛的地方（與電視、印刷品和廣播的廣播模式形成對比），這意味著什麼。

部落格@Percolate:Noah Brier-不僅僅是****

Those milli*** of people spending milli*** of minutes on Facebook a day aren’t really there to find out what’s happening with their friends, they’re just there, in the exact same way they’re just in front of their television (plus clicking, of course). Twitter’s the same. So is Tumblr. People don’t load that up looking for something, they open their iPhone and hit the Twitter icon looking for nothing.

在收音機上

***報道了墨西哥卡特爾繞過傳統蜂窩通訊的地下網路。

***：邁克爾魏森斯坦-墨西哥的卡特爾建立自己的國家廣播系統

"They're doing what any sensible military unit would do," said Robert Killebrew, a retired U.S. Army colonel who has studied the Mexican drug cartels for the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think tank. "They're branching out into as many forms of communicati*** as possible."

論文學微博

關註一位微博作者是否像“幕後看”

****：安妮·特魯貝克-為什麼作者在推特上

Salman Rushdie told me he enjoys Twitter because "it allows one to be playful, to get a sense of what is on a lot of people’s minds at any given moment." He has written more than a thousand tweets — "OK: Philistini** (destroying bks bec you don’t care abt bks) is not fasci** (destroying bks bec. you DO care). But both destroy books" — and more than 150,000 people follow them.