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As a result of this disconnect, recent anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that tabbed browser interfaces now engender significant challenges, popularly referred to as “tab overload’’
When the Tab Comes Due:Challenges in the Cost Structure of Browser Tab Usage
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I analyze The Times’ newsmaking practice as one that aimed less to garner the attention of a certain public than to generate what I follow Michael Warner (2002) in describing as a certain kind of publicness. Warner points out that __media texts constitute their publics not by actually garnering the attention of a particular group of readers, but simply by addressing themselves to a public and thereby creating the possibility of their garnering this public’s attention.__ I look at how The Times’ journalists produced and published many news articles that in their own opinion were unlikely to be read by many actual news readers but which nevertheless served to create this possibility—or to generate this sense of their news platform’s publicness on which its survival as a business depended.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
WeWork could, theoretically, be a sustainable business, but it was never a rocket ship. And to stretch the analogy, if you put hydrogen peroxide into a tractor’s fuel tank, the results will be entertaining, but only from a safe distance.
Rocket Ships and Tractors — Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans
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