A web-based “brain” for robots, a disturbing culture revolving around hijacked webcams, the trickiness of making digital publishing sustainable for its workers, misgivings about Google Glass and a former Pixar employee’s storytelling tips.

A couple looks at Facebook’s Graph Search, what the real problem with Google Now is, why “functional stupidity” is important, what should worry us about the future, and why “obscurity” can be a more helpful term than “privacy” when it comes to data.

The reads this week revolve around changing web culture (memes, the Slow Web and auto-generated e-books), and the morality and usefulness of collecting data on people (open city data and database marketing).

This week we read about the flaws in pattern-based investment, the many, many companies tracking us on the web, and how to fight busy with busy.

A week that prominently featured outcry over how web services handle our data, a Q&A with Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley and some thoughts on the Death of the Cyberflâneur.

Russell Davies & the post-digital, Gidsy could change things, why we are surprised about our lack of surprise about the future, a prototype worth a 1000 ideas, a retrospective on Zuck’s apologies are just a few of the things we read this week & highly recommend.

Tracking our behaviors and our body data means tracking the most sensitive kind of data. This is the very thing the privacy debate is about: Health and location data. So let’s think about this.

Payment isn’t the future of NFC, Facebook is ruining sharing, privacy online is hard (so here are a few pointers), the US are building a firewall and Amber Case shares her mind-blowing tech setup. Enjoy!

Every week, we filter a few of the most relevant articles about the digital business for you. Here’s our hand-selected reading list for the weekend. Enjoy!