本週最佳科技作品，7月29日

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。...

關於雅虎

大衛卡爾提出了瑪麗莎·梅耶爾（marissamayer）執掌雅虎時需要回答的一個長期問題：雅虎是什麼？

****：大衛卡爾-雅虎的大問題-是什麼？

So Ms. Mayer may be taking over a stagnating company, but it is not a collapsing one. Yahoo has what all media companies want, which is a large audience. The company just doesn’t know what to do with it. When Ms. Mayer starts poking around under the hood of the news operation, she will find a home page that has the kind of traffic that can melt servers when it points to another site.

論書獃子

極光槍擊案發生後，馬克斯讀到了一些問題，為什麼“書獃子”的標簽成為了大眾**的通俗描述。

馬克斯·裡德——詹姆斯·霍姆斯是個書獃子嗎？

Focusing on the perceived nerdiness of the killers helps categorize and demystify them. It explains the anger they’re supposed to have felt. It also provides people with a bit of rhetorical revenge: he may have killed dozens, but he’s still just a nerd.

工作中

亞歷克西斯•馬德裡加爾（Alexis Madrigal）將不斷堆積在電子產品上的責難分得一干二凈，轉而著眼於鼓勵人們期望24/7工作的文化。

大西洋：亞歷克西斯·馬德裡加爾——我們是沉迷於小玩意還是工作契約？

Imagine if 19th-century factory workers blamed the clock for the length of their work days. The answer to the horrible working conditi*** of the late 19th century was not to **ash the clocks or the steam engines! The solution was to organize and fight for your right to a 40-hour week and paid vacati***.

在icloud上

本週《山獅》釋出後，iA的奧利弗·雷琴斯坦（Oliver Reichenstein）探討了蘋果如何建立一個更易訪問的檔案系統（不要錯過本週的採訪）。

資訊架構師：Oliver Reichenstein-Mountain Lion的新檔案系統

The folder system paradigm is a geeky concept. Geeks built it because geeks need it. Geeks organize files all day long. Geeks don’t know and don’t really care how much their systems suck for other people. Geeks do not realize that for most people organizing documents within an operating system next to System files and applicati*** feels like a complicated and maybe even dangerous business. Remember that autoexec.bat file?

史蒂夫·喬布斯

史蒂夫·喬布斯在現代職場留下了什麼遺產，企業真的應該把他的人生當作福音來解讀嗎？

連線：本·奧斯汀——史蒂夫·喬布斯的故事：靈感還是警示？

In one camp are what you might call the acolytes. They’re businesspeople who have taken the life of Steve Jobs as license to become more aggressive as visionaries, as compe*****s, and above all as bosses. They’re giving themselves over to the thrill of being a general—and, at times, a dictator. Work was already the center of their lives, but Jobs’ story has made them resolve to double down on that choice.

論山獅

約翰·西拉庫薩背著他26000字的山獅評論。

ars technica:John Siracusa-OS X 10.8山獅：ars technica評論

But hang on a second. For a desktop OS in the year 2012, which direction is "forward," anyway? The obvious answer is "toward iOS," but Lion proved that it's not quite that simple. And really, there has to be more to it than compulsive imitation, otherwise why continue development of the Mac platform at all?

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