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。

論匿名

奎因·諾頓（Quinn Norton）在《匿名者》（Anonymous）一書中寫到了最近政治意識的增長——這不再僅僅是一種沉悶。

連線：奎因諾頓-如何匿名選擇目標，發動攻擊，並採取強大的組織下來

No, what Anonymous has become, in reality, is a culture, one with its own distinctive iconography (the Fawkes masks, the headless man in the business suit), its own self-referential memes, its own coarse sense of humor. And as Anonymous campaigns have spread around the world, so too has its culture, bringing its peculiar brand of cyber-rebellion to tech-savvy activists in Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Like a plastic Fawkes mask, Anonymous is an identity that anyone can put on, whenever they want to join up with the invisible online horde.

在聯邦貿易委員會

ProPublica和Wired的一份報告顯示，聯邦貿易委員會人手不足，“受到安全過濾器的束縛”，這使得其華盛頓總部的日常研究和測試變得困難。

ProPublica:Peter Maass——一個孤獨的研究生是如何擠佔**的？這對你的網路隱私意味著什麼

Earlier this year, the unit issued a highly publicized report on mobile apps for kids; its conclusion was reflected in the subtitle, "Current Privacy Disclosures Are Disappointing." It was a thin report, however. Rather than actually checking the personal data accessed by the report's sampling of 400 apps, the report just looked at whether the apps disclose, on the sites where they are sold, the types of personal data that would be accessed and what the data would be used for. The body of the report is just 17 pages. (The FTC says it will do deeper research in future reports.)

在iphone上

iPhone今年迎來了第五個年頭，Joel Johnson回顧了它的影響。

紐約動物報：喬爾·約翰遜——五年後的iPhone實踐回顧

...have a robotic voice remind you of household tasks when you walk through your front door, keep the birthdays and phone numbers of every person in your life, track your sleep patterns and be woken at exactly the right time in your REM cycle, take college courses from real universities for free, keep track of all your passwords, use email, tune your guitar, monitor police-band broadcasts, remix ambient audio into a living aural nightmare, have AAA send a tow truck, find free condoms, learn how to tie a knot, write a novel, control a flying robotic drone, mail a letterpress card, control your television with a remote control...

關於irl

Nathan Jurgenson考慮了對“登出現實生活”的痴迷，並促使我們重新考慮“純離線”的想法

新的調查：內森·朱根森——愛爾蘭人崇拜者

But this idea that we are trading the offline for the online, though it dominates how we think of the digital and the physical, is myopic. It fails to capture the plain fact that our lived reality is the result of the c***tant interpenetration of the online and offline. That is, we live in an augmented reality that exists at the intersection of materiality and information, physicality and digitality, bodies and technology, atoms and bits, the off and the online. It is wrong to say "IRL" to mean offline: Facebook is real life.

在winamp上

賽勒斯·法裡瓦爾在溫納普15歲生日時講述了它的傳奇歷史。

Ars技術：賽勒斯法裡瓦爾-溫納普的悲哀：最偉大的MP3播放器如何自我毀滅

"When you think about what AOL had in early 2000," he told Ars, "the only thing that they were missing that [would be] essential to today’s media system is a hardware device. They had the number one software for playing [in Winamp], and in theory, although not in practice, the [Time Warner] content library that could have been a pioneer in streaming. And a radio service. It had all the elements. AOL could have been Spotify, it could have been Pandora."

在instagram上

最後，給Instagram使用者的一個提示。

麥克斯威尼：凱瑟琳·馬爾科維奇——致用Instagram拍攝食物照片的人的***。

"I think it’s best, especially in the interest of honesty and my mounting rage, to tell you that no, no, I really, truly, absolutely, do not care about you or your food. I don’t. Sorry. Take more pictures of your cat. That might keep me interested."

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