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This “we care about publishers!” dance is a staple of Silicon Valley. Apple briefly promised to save the news business with the iPad, convincing publishers around the world to build bespoke tablet magazines before mostly abandoning that project. Facebook remains in a perpetually whipsawing relationship with the media, too: it will promote stories in the News Feed only to later demote them in favor of “Meaningful Social Interactions,” then promise publishers endless video eyeballs before mostly giving up on Facebook Watch.
Google AMP: How Google Tried to Fix the Web by Taking It Over - The Verge
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Only more recently has the analytical value of these hegemonic frameworks begun to be more widely questioned. New media technologies and practices in the West have destabilized the business models on which many established news companies relied and by which their journalist’s professional news reporting practices were funded. Contemporary journalists and editors adapting to the news’ digitalization while also trying to make a living in online environments crowded with bloggers, vloggers, tweeters, and feeds often find themselves operating less as guardians of truth and democracy than as fast-fingered processers and packagers of already circulating information.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
The “single” in “single-page app” refers to the fact that the user’s browser almost never has to fully reload the page as the user clicks around our site. Instead, when the browser makes its first HTTP request to our servers, we send it back a basic, skeleton HTML page and a big pile of JavaScript code. This JavaScript code executes inside the browser, and updates the view of the page in response to the user’s actions. When the JavaScript wants to send or retrieve data from Steveslist, it sends an Asynchronous JavaScript XML Request (almost always called AJAX for short) in the background to a URL. When our server responds, the JavaScript uses the response to update the browser view accordingly.
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners | Robert Heaton
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